problems mounting fat32 partition

[Tom]

Thanks, but that still doesn't explain why I can't find /dev/hda2 in the 
first place.

I have since found that booting into rescue mode from the install CD 
does find /dev/hda2 and mounts it accordingly. But it still doesn't work 
on a normal boot up.


Vinicius wrote:

> Tom escreveu:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just installed Fedora Core 3, dual boot with Win XP. I have a 
>> separate partition for my files and so on, and I want to access it 
>> from linux. This is the set up of my system:
>> hda:
>> - hda1 (Windows XP - NTFS ~15GB)
>> - hda2 (Files - FAT32 ~ 25GB)
>> hdd:
>> - hdd1 (/boot - ext3 ~ 100MB)
>> - hdd2 - LVM Physical Volume (containing swap and /  ~20GB)
>>
>> This is recognised by the Hardware Browser, but when I try to mount 
>> hda2, it does not seem to exist in /dev, so unsurprisingly, I get the 
>> error: "mount: special device /dev/hda2 does not exist"
>>
>> any ideas?
>> Tom.
>>
>
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/konrad_kosmowski/fat/
>