cant mount ntfs on 2.4.24
 

i'm using debian sarge with kernel 2.4.24 which i thought was supposed to include read-only ntfs support but when i try:

mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /winxp

it says:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

am i mistaken that this should work?

hmm, do this:
cat /proc/filesystems
and post what it says

here are the results:

nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev shm
nodev pipefs
ext2
cramfs
nodev ramfs
nodev devfs
nodev devpts
ext3
nodev usbdevfs
nodev usbfs
ntfs

hmm, well than perhaps you aren't pointing at the correct partition? look at
fidsk -l and see which are the non linux partitions, or perhaps you don't need the -o ro as ntfs is mounted read only by default....

any idea why fdisk -l doesn't show any info for me at all? it doesn't give an error, it just doesn't display anything.

??? what is the error message?

no, there is no error message, there's nothing.

hmm try fdisk /dev/hda