[olug] UGH! fdisk help

Craig Wolf CJWolf at mpsomaha.org
Thu Feb 27 13:28:17 UTC 2003


Tried that.  I need to check to see if I have vfat support in the kernel
then.  Help a brother out with how? 8<)

>>> xyf at nixnotes.org 2/26/2003 >>>
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:52:32PM -0600, Craig Wolf wrote:
> I have a HD out of an OS dead Win98 machine with Fat32.  I have added
to
> another system to mount and get some scanned images of the little
one
> off of it but It won't mount.  I looked at dmesg to find out what
the
> device was (hdc).  I tried to mount it, no go.  I tried to fdisk -l
it,
> it says: unable to open /dev/hdc.  What am I missing??  This is a RH
8.0
> system.  TIA!!

I'm assuming your trying to mount the drive from a linux box and you
have vfat support in your kernel.

# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/
$ cd /mnt/

See if that will work for you.  
hth,
kent

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