I've been trying w/o success to mount the dos (vfat?) partitions on hda 1 and hdb on my Red Hat 8.0 install. I'm putting the instruction in etc/fstab

dev/hdb7 /dos msdos defaults (example)

at boot up the screen shows no mount point for dos. Failed.

Tried a number of combinations, still missing something as a Linux newbie

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I re-installed SuSE 8.0 and it mounts all fat partitions automatically. Checked out the etc/fstab file and it's config setup is about what I've been attempting without success on RH 8.0



Last edited by rikytik at Oct 14 2002, 07:53 AM

Mandrake kindly mounts your partitions too.

Normally as a root, you would have to create a folder in the /mnt directory lets say stuff.

The you find out which part of the hard drive you want to mount.

so /dev/hda1 (First Hard Disk, partition 1)
/dev/hdb2 (Second hard disk, partition 2) etc.

I normally just type: mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/stuff

and it works. Not sure RH 8 can read NTFS yet though.

That generally depends on what options are compiled into the kernel. If it is then it will work, if not then obviously it won't.

rikytik, to mount a FAT partition do this as root (or a normal user if you have the "users" option in /etc/fstab). mount /dev/hdb7 (where hdb7 is the correct partition). Make sure you have the mount ppoint specified in /etc/fstab.

ok craftyc. Thanks. I may give that a go. In the meantime, just before I checked betaone, I installed Mandrake over my RedHat installation and you are right, it mounted the fat partitions automatically. Weird, because I put in the same command line in etc/fstab.

Now my main concern is configuring Samba. I followed all the instructions in the various Linux books I have and no go on Red Hat. Let you know tomorrow about Mandrake.

So far in all my trials I like best SuSE, Mandrake and Caldera second. Like least Red Hat. But, this is a very green Newbie speaking. Tried Debian, Slackware and Gentoo. But again.....I'm new at Linux, so it's not much of a recommendation.