Mounted or what?

[Cerrenus]

Hey there folks. I just installed mandrake 7.2. Wow was that an easy install. I installed it on a seperate hard drive, I have another hard drive that has win98se installed. How can I access files or can I even access files from the other hard drive that has fat32 partition?

[Gaccm]

when you setup the kernel (it might have been called 'base system') did you enable support for vfat filesystems?
considering you said it was a 'very easy install' i doubt it :)
i'm not sure if it would have been installed by default (support for vfat), but if it was, you should be able to do 'mount /dev/hdX' (X = the letter of your windows drive)

[Cerrenus]

In hard drake it has that hard drive listed like this: /dev/hde
I went into the configuration tool and it tells me "please make a backup copy of data first" then it gets me into DiskDrake. I select the HDE tab and select the partition.Under the choose action it has a button "umount". So what should i do? (i'm an uber newbie!)

[Linuxcool]

I have never used mandrake or DiskDrake, but whenever I see umount as a choice it means that the partition is mounted and clicking on umount will unmount the partition. It's possible that mandrake has automatically mounted the windows partition for you. Go to the /mnt directory and see if there is a directory in there for windows. If that doesn't work, see if you can look into your /etc/fstab file and see if /dev/hde is listed. If not, you'll either have to edit your fstab file or run some configuration program that will allow you to mount your windows partition.

[ 25 March 2001: Message edited by: Linuxcool ]

[Cerrenus]

thanks