James, thanks. Initially, when I tried, it was partitioned and formatted; that's when I send the original mssg
when I couldn't mount it, and, as I wasn't sure what's there, I connected it on another system and 'unpartitioned' existing stuff anyhow, thanks for the help: so far so good: Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 38166 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 38166 39081968 5 Extended > Once you've got it partitioned, format the partition(s) with whatever you > like. FAT32 is evil but it will work on anything, reiserfs/ext3 aren't > You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of > the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom. to get the evil fat32, what do I use: # mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system # mkfs.msdos /dev/sda1 mkfs.msdos 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) mkfs.msdos: Attempting to create a too large file system -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
