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| Robert Tseng 2002-10-03, 5:25 pm |
| HI All,
I am running redhat7.3 (1st HD has WInXP and Linux, dual boot)
Q1: How do I mount my 2nd HD in Linux? It's Fat32, with all my
data files. I have tried the following:
mount /dev/hdb (I believe the 2nd physical is hdb)
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb none of them works. any ideas??
Q2:i have two external usb CD-burner and scanner.
how can I get them work? how can I make sure if they are ready to use?
I don't see them in /mnt directory.
Should I have to mount it first? how?
thank you
regards,
Rob
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-10-03, 7:25 pm |
| On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:09 am, Robert Tseng posted to alt.os.linux the
following blurb ::
> HI All,
> I am running redhat7.3 (1st HD has WInXP and Linux, dual boot)
> Q1: How do I mount my 2nd HD in Linux? It's Fat32, with all my
> data files. I have tried the following:
> mount /dev/hdb (I believe the 2nd physical is hdb)
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb none of them works. any ideas??
You have to specify a directory to mount to.
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/<some_directory>
> Q2:i have two external usb CD-burner and scanner.
> how can I get them work? how can I make sure if they are ready to use?
> I don't see them in /mnt directory.
> Should I have to mount it first? how?
Firstly you will need to have USB support compiled into your kernel
which means recompiling if it is not.
Secondly visit http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ and check
too see if you hardware is supported
--
cheerio
Registered Linux User 282072
<www.volutin.net -- everything irrelevant>
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| Jon Portnoy 2002-10-03, 7:25 pm |
| In article <6Y4n9.25836$kd3.71978@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Joe Fredrickson wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:09 am, Robert Tseng posted to alt.os.linux the
> following blurb ::
>
>> Q2:i have two external usb CD-burner and scanner.
>> how can I get them work? how can I make sure if they are ready to use?
>> I don't see them in /mnt directory.
>> Should I have to mount it first? how?
>
> Firstly you will need to have USB support compiled into your kernel
> which means recompiling if it is not.
If it's redhat 7.3, it's there.
--
Jon Portnoy
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| Robert Tseng 2002-10-04, 2:25 am |
| Joe Fredrickson wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:09 am, Robert Tseng posted to alt.os.linux the
> following blurb ::
>
>> HI All,
>> I am running redhat7.3 (1st HD has WInXP and Linux, dual boot)
>> Q1: How do I mount my 2nd HD in Linux? It's Fat32, with all my
>> data files. I have tried the following:
>> mount /dev/hdb (I believe the 2nd physical is hdb)
>> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb none of them works. any ideas??
>
> You have to specify a directory to mount to.
> mount /dev/hdb /mnt/<some_directory>
>
have also tried: mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still doesn't work)
error: must specify the filesystem type, so i tired:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still no luck)
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| Joachim Feise 2002-10-04, 2:25 am |
| Robert Tseng wrote:
> Joe Fredrickson wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:09 am, Robert Tseng posted to alt.os.linux the
>>following blurb ::
>>
>>
>>>HI All,
>>>I am running redhat7.3 (1st HD has WInXP and Linux, dual boot)
>>>Q1: How do I mount my 2nd HD in Linux? It's Fat32, with all my
>>>data files. I have tried the following:
>>>mount /dev/hdb (I believe the 2nd physical is hdb)
>>>mount -t vfat /dev/hdb none of them works. any ideas??
>>
>>You have to specify a directory to mount to.
>>mount /dev/hdb /mnt/<some_directory>
>>
> have also tried: mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still doesn't work)
> error: must specify the filesystem type, so i tired:
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still no luck)
Of course not. /dev/hdb is the device for the whole disk.
You need to mount /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, etc. These devices
are associated with the partitions on the disk.
-Joe
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| Robert Tseng 2002-10-04, 4:25 am |
| Joachim Feise wrote:
> Robert Tseng wrote:
>> Joe Fredrickson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:09 am, Robert Tseng posted to alt.os.linux the
>>>following blurb ::
>>>
>>>
>>>>HI All,
>>>>I am running redhat7.3 (1st HD has WInXP and Linux, dual boot)
>>>>Q1: How do I mount my 2nd HD in Linux? It's Fat32, with all my
>>>>data files. I have tried the following:
>>>>mount /dev/hdb (I believe the 2nd physical is hdb)
>>>>mount -t vfat /dev/hdb none of them works. any ideas??
>>>
>>>You have to specify a directory to mount to.
>>>mount /dev/hdb /mnt/<some_directory>
>>>
>> have also tried: mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still doesn't work)
>> error: must specify the filesystem type, so i tired:
>> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still no luck)
>
> Of course not. /dev/hdb is the device for the whole disk.
> You need to mount /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, etc. These devices
> are associated with the partitions on the disk.
>
> -Joe
Thank you SO MUCH, with your suggestion I finally got it working.YAHOOOOOO
Thank you Thank you. Thank for other useful info. I really like this
newsgroup, a lot of kind people.
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-10-04, 4:25 am |
| On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:10 am, Jon Portnoy posted to alt.os.linux the
following blurb ::
> If it's redhat 7.3, it's there.
I would assume so, but I've never used red hat for anything yet so...
--
cheerio
Registered Linux User 282072
<www.volutin.net -- everything irrelevant>
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| Peter T. Breuer 2002-10-04, 7:25 am |
| Robert Tseng <robtseng@telus.net> wrote:
> Joe Fredrickson wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:09 am, Robert Tseng posted to alt.os.linux the
>> following blurb ::
>>
>>> HI All,
>>> I am running redhat7.3 (1st HD has WInXP and Linux, dual boot)
>>> Q1: How do I mount my 2nd HD in Linux? It's Fat32, with all my
>>> data files. I have tried the following:
>>> mount /dev/hdb (I believe the 2nd physical is hdb)
>>> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb none of them works. any ideas??
>>
>> You have to specify a directory to mount to.
>> mount /dev/hdb /mnt/<some_directory>
>>
> have also tried: mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still doesn't work)
Well, that's not going to work, is it? I hardly think "/mnt/hdb"
exists!
> error: must specify the filesystem type, so i tired:
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still no luck)
But why are you doing this instead of using the command as it is
intended. Point it at a directory!
Peter
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| Tim Wunder 2002-10-04, 7:25 am |
| On 10/4/2002 7:50 AM, someone claiming to be Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> Robert Tseng <robtseng@telus.net> wrote:
>
<snip>
>>have also tried: mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still doesn't work)
>
>
> Well, that's not going to work, is it? I hardly think "/mnt/hdb"
> exists!
>
It apparently exists, or he'd get a different error, something like:
mount: mount point /mnt/hdb does not exist
>
>>error: must specify the filesystem type, so i tired:
>>mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still no luck)
>
>
> But why are you doing this instead of using the command as it is
> intended. Point it at a directory!
>
READ the error!
"error: must specify the filesystem type"
Why do you think changing the mount point will solve this problem?
Besides, had you taken the time to read further into the thread, you
would've found the *real* solution, which was to specify the device
properly, with the partition number.
Sheesh, Peter...
Regards,
Tim
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| Peter T. Breuer 2002-10-04, 9:25 am |
| Tim Wunder <twunder@removecomcast.net> wrote:
> On 10/4/2002 7:50 AM, someone claiming to be Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>> Robert Tseng <robtseng@telus.net> wrote:
>>
> <snip>
>>>have also tried: mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb (still doesn't work)
>>
>>
>> Well, that's not going to work, is it? I hardly think "/mnt/hdb"
>> exists!
> It apparently exists, or he'd get a different error, something like:
> mount: mount point /mnt/hdb does not exist
I agree, my head cold is preventing me seeing more than a couple of
lines at a time.
>> But why are you doing this instead of using the command as it is
>> intended. Point it at a directory!
> READ the error!
> "error: must specify the filesystem type"
> Why do you think changing the mount point will solve this problem?
I don't. But then given two apparent errors I don't know which of them
will be flagged. As I recall, the mount command doesn't get an
error value from the kernel that enables it to distinguish what's
wrong. Maybe newer mount commands go off and do some sleuthing on their
own. I've recently noted that people seem to be saying that "mount -wo
remount /" should work on a readonly root (note the missing "-n"!) and
that can only happen if mount notices the style of error and quietly goes
away and corrects the usererror ...
> Besides, had you taken the time to read further into the thread, you
> would've found the *real* solution, which was to specify the device
No thread here, as I am fond of pointing out. I just see one post. I
read posts in time order, subsetted by threads if there are presently
more than one in a thread -.but that is not likely as I read faster
than posts come in, so threads will always be empty for me.
> properly, with the partition number.
Frankly, I thought he was talking about a cdrom. That would have been
/dev/hdb.
Peter
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| Tim Wunder 2002-10-04, 9:25 am |
| On 10/4/2002 9:37 AM, someone claiming to be Peter T. Breuer wrote:
<snip>
>
>
> No thread here, as I am fond of pointing out. I just see one post. I
> read posts in time order, subsetted by threads if there are presently
> more than one in a thread -.but that is not likely as I read faster
> than posts come in, so threads will always be empty for me.
>
Joachim Feise's post giving the solution appears on my newserver with a
time stamp nearly 5 hours earlier than yours, oh well, that's usenet...
<snip>
Regards,
Tim
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