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Unable to mount hda w/ windows 95



How is /mnt/win95 defined in /etc/fstab?  Perhaps you have the
wrong FS-type?  Do you have it as msdos or vfat or what?

-derek

"John J. Cruz" <casacruz at bellatlantic.net> writes:

> I've installed Red Hat Linux ver 7.2 and I elected to to use ext3 for
> the file system type.  Now I get the following error message when
> mounting the hard drive with windows 95: 
> 
> Drive Mount Command failed. 
> "Mount /mnt/win95 2>&1" reported; 
> mount fs type not supported by kernel 
> 
> Prior to this installation I used Red Hat 6.2 and was using fs type ext2
> and was able to mount the win95 drive. 
> 
> Is there a solution" 
> 
> jjc 
> 
> 
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