Claus....oops! I left off the most important part. When you
re-format then there is no partition specified. That means if
sda4 isn't working, then the re-formatting propcess has changed
sda4 to just sda.
Alan
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> 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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> >
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> > No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats --
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