windows recognition probs

[Antonio]

squareyes wrote:
> Thanks Antonio,
> sorry for overloading, getting worse as I get older.
> On manually mounting partition I get the following.
> Have booted into Windows (98SE) and everything there is working
> 
> squareyes at ubuntu:~ $ sudo mount /mnt/windows
> Password:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> squareyes at ubuntu:~ $

Humm, you said windows 98 so the partition MUST be fat, right?
And are you sure that is /dev/hda1 the windows partition, yes?

You can also try the standard syntax:

   $ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

If it does not work check if the vfat kernel module is loaded:

   $ lsmod | grep fat

and if not load it with

   $ sudo modprobe vfat

and then try to mount again the partition. If this do the trick you can 
make vfat autoloaded on startup just adding vfat to /etc/modules.

But it seems to me strange that you need all this. Once I installed 
Ubuntu on a laptop and had the fat partitions working only adding the 
proper lines in fstab.

> 
> Thanks again for the help,
> Take Care
> Winton
> 
> 

Cheers,

- Antonio