From: Safuat Hamdy (hamdy@rzdspc34.informatik.uni-hamburg.de)
Date: 02/04/93


From: hamdy@rzdspc34.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Safuat Hamdy)
Subject: Re: partitions , getty
Date: 4 Feb 1993 11:27:22 GMT

In article <C1oArw.GL4@fiu.edu>, root@scs (Operator) writes:
|> The SCSI controller works fine, and Linux does not have any problem
|> running, but for some reason, I cannot mount my DOS partition using
|>
|> mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt

Are you sure about what are you doing? /dev/sda is the WHOLE disk!!! (more exact: the whole
first SCSI disk). The partitions are /dev/sda1 , /dev/sda2 ...
imagine, your DOS partition is e.g. /dev/sda4 then do

   mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt

To examine your partition table, type

   fdisk /dev/sda

and then

   p

and you'll see your partitions and their fs-type.

S. Hamdy