On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Gregory B.Dickinson wrote: > I am running 1.3.1 on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 5120. I have 2 hard drives, > pri master is 1.2gb, pri slave is 630mb. The primary master is Linux > 100%, except for a Boot Manager Partition. The second drive is DOS 6.22, > 1 big partition. Whenever I attempt to mount the secondary drive under > Linux (/dev/hdb) I get a message that there is not a valid MS-DOS > filesystem on the drive, and about the only other message that I get that > is easily decipherable is Transaction block size=512" or something to that > effect. [...snip...] > 2.) (the most obvious) What am I doing wrong?
I know, this question is stupid, but did you use /dev/hdb or /deb/hdb1, because with /dev/hdb you will access the whole hard disk, and when you want to mount a filesystem (DOS partition) you have to use /dev/hdb1. Bye Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Daniel Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - - Ingolstadt, Germany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - - "If Win95 is the answer, it must have been a real foolish question !" - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
