Re: Mounting DOS drive

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 12/15/04

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    Tom Capehart wrote:
    > I've just installed Fedora 3 on a PC with 2 hard disks. I'm dual
    > booting Windows XP and Fedora using grubb. When I look under the System
    > Tools>Hardware Browser, both disks appear. the dos disk shows fat32.
    > However, when I try to mount the disk using the "User Mount Tool" under
    > System Tools>Disk Management, I get the following error message: "There
    > are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmount. Contact
    > your administrator." (Unfortunately, I am the administrator.)
    >
    > I used to mount dos drives in Red Hat 9 with no problem.
    >
    > Any ideas?

    What are the partition names of your DOS partitions?

    # fdisk -l /dev/hda
    # fdisk -l /dev/hdb

    (assuming your drives are master & slave on first IDE controller)

    Paul. 

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