Adam Sleight wrote:

> dual boot win98 and redhat 6.2.  how do I mount D: drive?
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/winc    works just fine and it mounts the
> C: drive but I can't mount the D: drive where all my mp3s are stored so
> XMMS can play them. D: is on the extended partition as a logical drive.
> Can't linux access it?
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/wind  doesn't work...tried hda3, hda4, etc.
> [root@localhost /mnt]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/wind
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>        (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
>        instead of some logical partition inside?)
> YES to the above question...so how do I mount a logical partition
> instead of the extended partition?
>
> here's my fstab
> /dev/hda8 /  ext2    defaults        1 1
> /dev/hda5 /boot  ext2    defaults        1 2
> /dev/hda9 /home  ext2    defaults        1 2
> /dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1  /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  auto    noauto,owner    0 0
> none /proc  proc    defaults        0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> /dev/hda7 swap swap    defaults        0 0

Adam I would have thought that the first logical partition would have been
hda5.  I seems that the first 4 are for primary or extended
partitions.  What does fdisk -l show ?

Bret



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