Re: Drive proving stubbornly unmountable
On Mon, 01 Jun 1998, Damon Muller wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Just got around to installing Bo on my old Pentium 150, and it's pretty
>much working (give or take a few minor issues...)
>
>One thing has got me a little cofused, and maybe it's me doing something
>wrong (prolly is)... I have a 1.2G drive in it which was formated as FAT
>under NT4, and works quite nicely under Win95 as a VFAT drive. It works
>in this machine, because it was Win95 before it became Debian.
>
>I can't get this drive to mount, using the command below.
>
>rei# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
>According to cfdisk, it is there, as shown below...
>
> Name Flags Part Type FS Type Size (MB)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Pri/Log Free Space 0.50
> /dev/hdc1 Primary Win95 Extended (LBA) 1221.12
>
>Anyone have any suggestions? What am I missing?
>
>Thanks,
>
>damon
>
Possible error sources are :
-the partition was never made a vfat partition by
Windows95, but is still a fat partition
-your kernel does not support the vfat fs
Try mounting it as a fat partition or check whether your kernel supports vfat.
If it does not, you can either recompile it with vfat support or load the
appropriate module.
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