Unable to mount hda w/ windows 95

[John J. Cruz]

Derek,

I believe you hit problem on the head.  This is all I have in fstab file
for the win95 drive:

# FS = file system
#mounting dev      FS mounting pt        FS type     Options
/dev/hda1            /mnt/win95

Thanks for help
jjc


On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 20:32, Derek D. Martin wrote:
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> At some point hitherto, John J. Cruz hath spake thusly:
> > I've installed Red Hat Linux ver 7.2 and I elected to to use ext3
> > for the file system type.
> 
> An excellent choice.  No more fsck!
> 
> > Now I get the following error message when mounting the hard drive
> > with windows 95:
> 
> > Drive Mount Command failed. 
> > "Mount /mnt/win95 2>&1" reported; 
> > mount fs type not supported by kernel 
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> > Prior to this installation I used Red Hat 6.2 and was using fs type ext2
> > and was able to mount the win95 drive. 
> > 
> > Is there a solution" 
> 
> Yes!  And because I'm in a good mood, I'll even tell you what it is.
> Enable msdos and vfat filesystem support in your kernel, if it isn't.
> If you don't know how to compile a kernel, see the Kernel-HOWTO at
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/ (in the "Howtos" section).  Then, make sure
> you have an entry in your /etc/fstab for the filesystem, which (based
> on your description above, and assuming the device file associated
> with your windows partition is /dev/hda1) should prolly look like this:
> 
>   /dev/hda1	    /mnt/win95		  vfat	 defaults    0 0
> 
> If your windows partition isn't /dev/hda1, make sure you use the right
> thing.
> 
> If you don't know what THAT is, try (as root) this:
> 
>   # fdisk -l /dev/hda
> 
> You should get a list of the partitions on your first IDE drive, which
> looks similar to this:
> 
> 
>   Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
>   Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>   
>      Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>   /dev/hda1   *         1        83    666666    b  Win95 FAT32
>   /dev/hda2            84       784   5630782+   5  Extended
>   /dev/hda5            84       784   5630751    b  Win95 FAT32
> 
> It's onna them pesky "Win95 FAT32" partitions, I do declare.  If you
> only had one, then pick that one!  Otherwise, you're on your own,
> since I know nothing about your system.
> 
> Have a nice day!
> 
> [Oh, and for those who've seen the above partition table and think
> I've sold out, my linux partitions are on /dev/sda, and I rarely ever
> use the win95 partitions for much more than scratch space.]
> 
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