On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 18:15, Aly Dharshi wrote: > Haven't tried an fdisk -l but the hardware browser program (/usr/bin/hwbrowser) > reports that partition as an unknown filesystem. Has anybody been able to use > Windows XP SP2 to make a FAT/FAT32 partition and then get it mounted under > Fedora Core 2 ? Any pointers would be good. Thanks. Absolutely. Which kernel? Stock or custom? Did you create the directory "mnt/win" first? Are you sure that you are not selecting the wrong partition (NTFS)? Do a fdisk -l. > > PS: When my buddy booted back into Windows the FAT partition said do you want > to format and put an FS on it, basically he shit a brick, but used some recovery > tools to get to the files that he has on that partition (phew). So don't know > what is going on there unless XP SP2 is quite crap like the rest of the OS that > it doesn't know what is going on. > > Cheers, > > Aly. > > > -- > Aly Dharshi > aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx > > "A good speech is like a good dress > that's short enough to be interesting > and long enough to cover the subject"
