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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Friend installed Linux - then ripped out WindowsXP: He needs help ??

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Friend installed Linux - then ripped out WindowsXP: He needs help ??
  • From: William Case <billlinux [ at ] rogers [ dot ] com>
  • Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:30:34 -0400
Hi;

You are right. 

On Tue, 2006-23-05 at 13:25 -0400, Jim Little wrote:
> Quoth Martin Hicks:
> 
> > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:38:24PM -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > 
> > > mount -t vfat [or msdos] /mnt/windows /dev/hdc  can't mount disk; error
> > > says file system unrecognized.
> > 
> > your arguments are backwards.
> > 
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows
> 
> Good point, might as well make it read-only also, thus:
> 
> mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows
> 
> Jim

They are backwards here, but they weren't used backwards on his machine
-- just a bad memory and typing too quickly.

-- 
Regards Bill