try this
1. edit /etc/fstab file
2. add "dev/hda1 /dosc auto defaults 0 0" (without quotes) at 3rd or 4th
line.
3. save the file.
4. run the command "mount /dosc"
hopefully you will be able to mount the dos partition.
>From: "Ghins Mathai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [LIH] mount failing on fat32
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 05:11:12 GMT
>
>When I try to mount a fat32 partition as:
>mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dosc
>I get the following error:
>
>[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
>[me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=32,fl=0,ds=32,de=0,data=32,se=0,ts=1939329,ls=512]
>Transaction block size = 512
>VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01.
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
>
>When I run fdisk, the following is the output:
>Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 1 481 969664+ b Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda2 482 482 514 66528 82 Linux swap
>/dev/hda3 515 515 1023 1026144 83 Linux native
>
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