[NCLUG] mounting vfat partitions

rosing at peakfive.com rosing at peakfive.com
Tue Apr 29 12:11:31 MDT 2003


>As long as the installation didn't overwrite part of the vfat's it
>should pretty much just work. Can you mount the windows partition with:
>
>	mkdir /win98

DOH!  I bet it was as simple as missing this.  Kind of hard doing this
over the phone.  I'll have him try it.

>	mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win98

check.

>if so then adding the following to /etc/fstab should work:
>
>	/dev/hda1          /win98         vfat  default  0 0

check.

>Was he running XP or Win2K Professional or other NT based system before?

I think it's W98, but I'll ask him.

Thanks,

Matt



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