Re: Large HD and VMWare's raw partitions

[ambarish pathak <ambarish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subba Rao wrote:
> Four partitions at the end of the disk are FAT16/msdos.
> When I tried to mount them,
>         mount -t auto /dev/hdc5 /msdos
> then the filesystem is mounted as a ext2 filesystems.

hav u formated those filesystems using mkfs.msdos?

> When I try to mount them as msdos filesystems,
>         mount -t msdos /dev/hdc5 /msdos

try: "mount -t vfat /dev/hdc5 /msdos"

> The goal is to create a raw partition for VMWare on the /dev/hdc5 partition and
> install NT over it rely on M$ systems.
> How can I create raw partitions for VMware on large HDs and mount them?

i think detailed instructions are present on VMware site, or with
installation suite.

btw, this question shud go to LIH, i guess.