Claus....but that is the problem. The factory-formatted (the
way you get them out of the retail package) discs are formatted
as partition 4, if you re-format after getting the disc out of
the package then it is no longer formatted as partition 4.
Alan
Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Vic wrote:
>
> > Is this a brand new disk?
> > If so you should format it as such:
> > mkfs.vfat /dev/sda4
> > then try to mount it
>
> Thanks for your mail!
> It is a disk formatted vfat. Another guy was putting some stuff on in
> using Mandrake as well. Therefore the prolbem cannot be the disk by
> itself...
>
> Best regards,
> Claus.
>
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