I have Mandrake 7.2 on a laptop that started out with W2K and now dual
boots. 7.2 sees the mnt/windows just fine. The -t type is vfat just like you
specified. Check to see if there is an update available for linux to mount
W2K filesystems. Or this maybe a kernel update. I am not sure.
Fred
-----Original Message-----
From: Mr. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mounting windows 2000 on Linux
Dr. Stocki
Umm...I don't know much about Win2k but I do know that it is a continuation
of NT and NT doesn't use FAT (well it can) but it uses NTFS by default.
That could be your problem. I don't know if Win2k uses NTFS or another file
structure but just to give you some kind of insight I thought I would tell
you. Sorry I can't help you further.
Mr. Smith
> 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
