Re: Drive proving stubbornly unmountable
On Mon, 1 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think this is fat32, not vfat. AFAIK the 2.0.33 debian kernels have
the fat32 patch installed. I've never used it myself bu I know others
on the list have.
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