WinXP fat32 partitions on RedHat8

ni_knight · 01-17-2003, 06:40 AM

I am trying to mount three winXP fat32 partitions on a RH8 install.
During installation I unchecked the drive with the XP part's on and now when I am attempting to mount the part's I get no joy whatsoever.

RH's Hardware browser just drops back out after showing absolutely nothing, so I can't even verify if the OS sees the HD as a physical drive.

RH8 is on my primary HD. hdax various partitions.

The XP partitions are on my secondary HD, which I presume would be hdb1-3 (3 partitions)

Any ideas?

acid_kewpie · 01-17-2003, 07:02 AM

run fdisk -l /dev/hdb to list the structure of the drive. if you want hdb1 then run

Code:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/blah_blah_i_am_a_mount_point

that should work fine. if that does then you can create an /etc/fstab entry such as

Code:

/dev/hdb1   /mnt/blah   vfat   umask=000,auto,user      0 0

ni_knight · 01-17-2003, 07:23 AM

I am quite sure that I have done nothing to my hdb drive, yet I get:

Code:

[root@mypc root]# fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
[root@mypc root]#

Which would suggest that all is gone. ???