> Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but I haven't had any time lately. My fstab > file has only two things of interest, so I only include those here: > /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos vfat defaults 0 0 > > hda1 is the one I get the failed error on as I load up. I don't even know what hard > disk Linux is installed on (maybe you could help figure that out). My /mnt/dos > directory is empty as well. Any ideas?
What this is saying is that dos (windows) is installed on the first partition
of your first drive. The way drives are mapped is as follows (examples):
hda1 = disk 1, partition 1
hda2 = disk 1, partition 2
hdb1 = disk 2, partition 1
hdb2 = disk 2, partition 2
Each line in the /etc/fstab file tells what directory each partition
is associated with and settings about that "mount point".
If you type as root: mount /mnt/dos
your files should appear. You might want to change some of the settings
in your /etc/fstab file.
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dos vfat auto,user 0 0
This now says automatically mount this partition on boot, and allow any
user (instead of only root) to mount this device.
If you type: mount
on the command line you can see what partitions are currently mounted. Here
is some sample output:
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) (main root partition)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) (boot partition)
/dev/hda5 on /home type ext3 (rw) (home partition)
Can you give us the exact error that happens on boot? I hope some of this
helps. :-)
-Evan
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