If you are running boot magic you may have to go into the config section of
that through windows and make sure that your windows partition is not hidden
from anything else. I am running 98 and that worked for me.
good luck,
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: Dr. Trevor J. Stocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:42 PM
Subject: [newbie] Mounting windows 2000 on Linux
> Hi,
> I have a windows 2000 partition (20Gb) and 3 linux paritions (20 Gb
> total) and I have
> installed mandrake linux 7.1 and I am un able to see the windows 2000
> parition. I tried:
>
> mkdir /mnt/windows
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
>
> and I got the error message:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many
> mounted file
> systems.
>
> I don't have very many mounted file systems (3 or 4). So I am not sure
why
> it is giving me
> that message. I am running windows 2000 on the other partition. I ran a
> program called
> diskdrake (comes with mandrake) to look at the different partitions. It
> had labeled the
> windows partition as other, and not as fat. I tried to use diskdrake to
> set a mount point
> on the windows 2000 partition and it gave a page of error messages. Is
> there a manual
> (ie I type in the commands) of setting up mount points?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Sincerely,
> Trevor
>
> --
>
> Dr. Trevor J. Stocki
> Research Scientist
>
> Optical Communications and Electrophotonics Section
> Broadband Network Technologies Research
> Communications Research Centre
> 3701 Carling Avenue Box 11490, Station H
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2H 8S2
> phone: (613) 990-5810
> fax: (613) 993-7139
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
