Strange behaviour non-linux partitions: HELP

[Hans Troost]

Hi Paul,

Ok, my memory, so following your suggestion. 

First commented out the lines for the windows partition in fstab.
Rebooted: so nothing really mounted in /mnt/windows:
[root at fedora hans]# mount -l
/dev/hda7 on / type ext3 (rw) [/]
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /boot type ext3 (rw) [/boot]
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
[root at fedora hans]#
[root at fedora hans]#

then started a terminal window in superuser mode and:

[root at fedora hans]# cd /mnt/windows
[root at fedora windows]# ls	(OK, nothing there)
[root at fedora windows]# mdir c
Can't open /dev/fd0: No such device or address
Cannot initialize 'A:'
[root at fedora windows]#

It seems that I do something wrong (newbie, IT-specialist, but coming from Billy...). The system seems to think that I try to do something with the floppy-drive???

any suggestion?
 
> If you create directories /mnt/windows/c /mnt/windows/d ...
> /mnt/windows/g etc. and mount each partition on the appropriate
> directory, things will be much less confusing.
>
> Paul.
> --
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>

-- 
With kind regards,

Hans Troost
e-mail: fedora + chr(64) + troost.tweakdsl.nl