Re: muLinux and XP

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 22:03:28 CET


On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:48:44PM -0500, Jim Ruxton nicely wrote:
> Thanks Michele,
> > Please, I encourage you in order to be less mechanic and more intuitive:
> > put a muLinux BASE floppy in this system; try to reach the console and
> > try to mount the hard-disk with your hand:
> >
> > # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
>
> I'll try this and see what happens. I can't damage by XP file system by
> doing this can I? I'm a Linux newbie.

No. You can even mount read-only:

                # mount -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt
                # ... inspect it ...
                # cd /; umount /mnt

Michele

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