Newbie - Mount issue

[Wood Contour Inc.]

Hi all

I am in a progress of migrating XP tp Redhat 9 at home. Installation was
smooth, but I cannot seem to dfind where my windows D drive (HDA2?) is
mounted

How am I about to find where it is?

TIA

[Paul Lutus]

Wood Contour Inc. wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I am in a progress of migrating XP tp Redhat 9 at home. Installation was
> smooth, but I cannot seem to dfind where my windows D drive (HDA2?) is
> mounted

Why do you assume it is mounted? You may have to mount it yourself, and, if
it is formatted with NTFS, you may (depending on distribution) have to
recompile your kernel to support reading it (no reliable writing at this
time).

--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

[Wood Contour Inc.]

Paul

Thanks for the answer. I do not assume so. I do not believe it is
mounted. While experiencing with SuSE 8.2 the boot device was mounted as
read only. Under RH9 I do not even have that. Does Linux support FAT32?

Paul Lutus wrote:
> Wood Contour Inc. wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all
>>
>>I am in a progress of migrating XP tp Redhat 9 at home. Installation was
>>smooth, but I cannot seem to dfind where my windows D drive (HDA2?) is
>>mounted
>
>
> Why do you assume it is mounted? You may have to mount it yourself, and, if
> it is formatted with NTFS, you may (depending on distribution) have to
> recompile your kernel to support reading it (no reliable writing at this
> time).
>

[Ricky Wee]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:04:27 +0000, Wood Contour Inc. wrote:

> Paul
>
> Thanks for the answer. I do not assume so. I do not believe it is
> mounted. While experiencing with SuSE 8.2 the boot device was mounted as
> read only. Under RH9 I do not even have that. Does Linux support FAT32?

man mount
As root, try this command:
mkdir /mnt/ddrive
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/ddrive

assuming your windows D drive is the slave.


--
Ricky Wee

['Dungeon' Dave]

... and it came to pass that Wood Contour Inc. <info@woodcontour.com>
uttered forth:
>Hi all
>
>I am in a progress of migrating XP tp Redhat 9 at home. Installation
>was smooth, but I cannot seem to dfind where my windows D drive (HDA2?)
>is mounted
>
>How am I about to find where it is?
>
fdisk -l /dev/hda

- will shows slices on your disk
--

"Dungeon" Dave

[Jan Stedehouder]

Wood Contour Inc. wrote:
> Paul
>
> Thanks for the answer. I do not assume so. I do not believe it is
> mounted. While experiencing with SuSE 8.2 the boot device was mounted as
> read only. Under RH9 I do not even have that. Does Linux support FAT32?
>
> Paul Lutus wrote:
>
>> Wood Contour Inc. wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I am in a progress of migrating XP tp Redhat 9 at home. Installation was
>>> smooth, but I cannot seem to dfind where my windows D drive (HDA2?) is
>>> mounted
>>
>>
>>
>> Why do you assume it is mounted? You may have to mount it yourself,
>> and, if
>> it is formatted with NTFS, you may (depending on distribution) have to
>> recompile your kernel to support reading it (no reliable writing at this
>> time).
>>
>

RH9 does not seem to mount windows partitions automatically, FAT32 or
NTFS alike. As far as I can see NTFS is not supported.

In order to mount a disk you have to do the following.

First make a filefolder e.g. /home/data

Then go to /etc/fstab and add the following line

dev/hda2 /home/data vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0

In this way I can mount my fat32 partition with all permissions.

Good luck

Jan Stedehouder