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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> >
> > My PC has 2 hard drives. The first one has C: and D:,
> > the second one E:  F:  and G: in an extended partition,
> > no primary partitions.
> >
> > When in BasicLinux, I can mount /dev/hda1 /mnt, and thus
> > access my C: drive.  But not any others of the MS-DOS
> > logical drives;
>
> How exactly are you trying to mount them?
>
> > I get stuff like this:
> >
> > Partition check:
> >  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
>
> It looks to me like your D: drive is /dev/hda5.
> Have you tried:  mount /dev/hda5 /mnt
>
Be sure to do umount /mnt if your /dev/hda1 is already mounted at /mnt ,
first though.  To be safe (and sane), you might want to create separate
mount points under /mnt for your various drives/partitions.  Like
/mnt/hda1, /mnt/hda2, /mnt/hda5 - etc.  To do that, you just issue mkdir
/mnt/hda1 - etc.  Then of course you'd do mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 to
mount your partitions.

James