Sorry if I'm complicating things by jumping in the middle of a thread, but let me try to help by suggesting a little different approach... On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Eric wrote:
Hi my level of Linux is "plenty to learn" and doing that, in the mean time. I just trying to read the windows D: drive (or E: for that matter), I got C: to work in just a flash
I added all the empty (?) directories to /mnt/ folder example; /mnt/hda1, /mnt/hda2, /mnt/hda3
If I clink onto the C: drive icon on the desktop it opens up and you can see all the files and directories in the drive But no luck yet with D: , E: or any other yet, it makes some complaint that D: & E: & ... are "extended partitions instead of same logical partition inside" OK, at this point, let's see exactly what you have to work with, OK?
Please log in or su to root, and enter the following command: fdisk -l /dev/hda Please post the partition table information printed by this command. If you have more than one physical drive, print and post the partition table info for those drives as well. Please also post the entire contents of your current /etc/fstab. With that info, I can give you an fstab which will mount your other partitions.
and the /etc/mtab I added in and tried both /dev/hda3 /dos vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,umask=0 0 0 & /dev/hde1 /dos vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,umask=0 0 0
/etc/mtab is not intended to be edited by you. /etc/mtab is written by the 'mount' and 'unmount' command, It is intended as a description of the current mount state, it is not used to determine any mount properties. -- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin