windows recognition problems

[Antonio]

Hi squareyes,

squareyes wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 12:15 +0100, Antonio wrote:
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>>So you can finally mount it! To set the right permissions try to add rw 
>>and umask=0 options:
>>
>>     $ sudo mount -t vfat -o rw,umask=000 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
> 
> 
> squareyes at ubuntu:~ $ sudo mount -t vfat -o
> rw,unmask=000 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
> Password:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
>        or too many mounted file systems

If you can mount /dev/hda1 without the options you shuld be able to 
mount it even with the rw and umask options

> 
> 
> squareyes at ubuntu:~ $ sudo fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40981118976 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1         755     6064506    b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2             756        4982    33953377+   5  Extended
> /dev/hda5             756        1519     6136798+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6            1520        1582      506016   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda7            1583        4982    27310468+  83  Linux
> squareyes at ubuntu:~ $ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5             5.8G  1.6G  4.0G  29% /
> tmpfs                 126M     0  126M   0% /dev/shm
> 
> 
> 
> Have read the man pages and like most of us who are not trained find
> them to be of almost no use, can't understand them.
> I will try to save as much info from these emails to windows using
> knoppix as I can, so I can print it, and do a fresh install.

If you reinstall and want to use hda7 as home, remember to chose /home 
as mount point for it during the manual partitioning step. And do also a 
memtest (ubuntu automatically set up an entry for it in grub).

> If that doesn't work, looks like back to man 9.1 and knoppix .
> Am on a pension, can't afford a new printer. Getting too old for this.

With open hardware specifics our life would be simpler...

> Sorry to be a big pest, many thanks for all the info you have given
> me. 
>  
> 
>>Take Care
> 
> 
> Winton

No problem ;-),
- Antonio