Re: Ok heres my problem

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Alan Todd (Alan.Todd@InfoAve.Net):
> i did a flat install  -- using Storm Linux 2.0
> mounting has never been a problem before now
> 
> hmm --
> Thanks

Isn't the answer in the error message? (And in Jason's reply.)

If vfat is unsupported, then I would expect something like:

	mount -t xenix /dev/sdc4 /mnt/fred
	mount: fs type xenix not supported by kernel

If the mount point doesn't exist, then:

	mount -t vfat /dev/sdc4 /mnt/fred
	mount: mount point /mnt/fred does not exist

But you got:

> > mount -t vfat /dev/hda2  /mnt/windows/
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> > (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> > instead of some logical partition inside?)

and Jason said:

> second, are you sure that is the
> correct partition number?  fdisk -l /dev/hda will help out...

So the output of fdisk might be more help than the fact that you
did a "flat" install, whatever that means.

I can only help you as far as:

	mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt     
	mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
	       or too many mounted file systems

(i.e. trying to mount the whole disk) because I have no extended
partitions on any of my linux systems.

Cheers,

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