Re: umsdos root partition

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Guenther Starnberger <http://www.gmx.net/~gst>
 > Date: Thu  Oct 14, 10:00am
 >
 > i have a notebook with windoze 98 and debian linux installed. because
 > the harddisk isn't very large (and i don't want to split it) i decided
 > to install linux in an umsdos partition.

Hi.  I have been looking for a HOWTO or something on how to do this (i.e.,
install Debian onto an existing FAT partition and not having to
repartition the disk).  Do you know if such a HOWTO exists for Debian?

Thanks.

 > my linux root is in the fat32 subdirectory \linux\
 > when i boot the kernel everything works, umsdos finds the linux stuff
 > in the directory and uses it as root.
 > but how can i remount this directory in fstab?
 > when i manually mount a umsdos partition i can't mount a subdirectory
 > of it (only the whole thing).
 > (it works without remounting the root in fstab, but that doesn't look
 > like a "clean" solution for me - mount doesn't show a mounted root and
 > such things...)
 > 
 > any suggestion ?
 > 
 > cu&thnx
 > -guenther
 > 
 > http://www.gst.priv.at/