before adding anything in fstab try executing this
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win1
i am working in this way only at the moment
vish
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From: Bhavin Sheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 12:42 AM
Subject: RE: [LIH] mounting fat32 partitions
>hi folks ! I am new here. I've been fooling around with linux for the past
>one year and my favourite pass-time is trying out new distros. I've finally
>started using RedHat 6.1 (pcq).
>
>have a problem making Linux mount my win98 (fat32) partitions. i tried
>editing /etc/fstab with the following values :
>/dev/hda1 /mnt/win1 fat32 defaults 0 0
>
>Now I know the setting works fine when i mount a fat16 partition by
>substituting "vfat" instead of "fat32" but when i try the settings for
>fat32, at booting-up, the following error occurs:
>mount: fat32 not recognised by kernel
>
>Please help.
>
>Thanks,
>Bhavin Sheth
>
>
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