situation is as fallows
a pc containing 1 ide drive and 4 scsi drives
hda1 is the OS drive, i copy crital data from hda1 to sda1
i wipe out the os drive and reinstall knoppix, had some troubke with the install so now im booted from the knoppix 3.3 cd
i try to mount sda1 and i get
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

acording to cfdisk sda1 is a sfs partition
i have never heard of this until now
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"fdisk -l /dev/sda" returns

Disk /dev/sda: 9150 MB, 9150996480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1112 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1112 8932108+ 42 SFS
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"file - </dev/sda1" returns
bash: /dev/sda1: No such device or address
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"cat /proc/partitions" returns
major minor #blocks name

8 0 8936520 sda
8 16 8936520 sdb
8 32 8936520 sdc
8 48 8936520 sdd
3 0 78150744 hda
3 1 1502077 hda1
3 2 76646083 hda2
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this is a friends server box...
i came out to install a newer version of knoppix for him so he would not be running the web server with an old kernal
i have no idea how retrive the data from sda1 that was wriiten to it with the prior knoppix install
i have no idea what sfs is or why the file system was made as sfs in the 1st place..
all i know is that if that partition can somehow be mounted, with knoppix or any other tool out ther, i need to find out how to do it
can anyone shed any light on this extensivly confusion situation?
-evermuse