[tlug] Still looking for the old d: drive...

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon writes:
 > Still looking for the old d: drive...
 > 
 > I still haven't been able to get my computer with RH-Linux 8.0 to
 > recognize the old d: drive (which still has files on it from the drive's
 > former life as a W-98SE machine).  System data is as follows:
 > 
 > 
 > Drive /dev/hda (Geom: 4863/255/63) (Model: Maxtor ST040H4)
 > 
 > Disk Information
 > 
 > Device          Start    End     Size (MB)
 > /dev/hda
 >   hda1           1       13        102 ext13
 >   hda3           14      94        635 linux-swap
 >                  95      446      2761 Free space
 >   hda2           447     4863    34648 Extended
 >     hda6         447     2066    12708 ext3
 >       hda5       2067    4863    21940 FAT
 > 
 > 
 > When I tried:
 > /etc/fstab  - I got:
 > 
 > LABEL=/       /            ext3    defaults        1 1
 > LABEL=/boot   /boot        ext3    defaults        1 2
 > none          /dev/pts     devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
 > none          /proc        proc    defaults        0 0
 > none          /dev/shm     tmpfs   defaults        0 0
 > /dev/hda3     swap         swap    defaults        0 0
 > /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom   iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
 > /dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy  auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
 > 
 > - so I tried adding:
 > 
 > /dev/hda5     /mnt/win_d   vfat    auto,users,uid=chuck,gid=chuck 0 0
 > 
 > - but it didn't work.
 > 
 > 
 > Taking a wild guess I tried:
 > 
 > LABEL=/       /            ext3    defaults        1 1
 > LABEL=/boot   /boot        ext3    defaults        1 2
 > none          /dev/pts     devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
 > none          /proc        proc    defaults        0 0
 > none          /dev/shm     tmpfs   defaults        0 0
 > /dev/hda3     swap         swap    defaults        0 0
 > /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom   iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
 > /dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy  auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
 > /dev/hda2     /mnt/win_d   vfat    defaults        0 0
 > /dev/hda6     /mnt/win_e   vfat    defaults        0 0
 > /dev/hda5     /mnt/win_f   vfat    defaults        0 0
 > 
 > - to no avail.
 > 
 > 
 > When you've stopped gasping for breath from rolling around on the floor
 > laughing, could (maybe, please - please...) let me know what to do to
 > get that data mounted?
 > 

You should first try mounting the partition by hand (as root), e.g. 
mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/win_y
If that fails, you will at least have an error message.
You probably know that /mnt/win_y has to be an existing directory?!

Marcus

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