mounting windows partition problem

[pcorajr]

maybe im using the worng command ? but when i try mounting Fat32 windows partition i get this error

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount /dev/hda /mnt/hda/ -t vfat
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,or too many mounted file systems


here is my fstab
filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb1 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda /mnt/hda auto noauto,users,exec 0 0


i use qtparted and the partition shows as hda1 maybe thats the problem ? i tried to change this in Fstabbut still no luck any suggestions ? also is there a way to configure fstab to mount the windows partition at startup ?

im running a HD install

thanks in advance

pcorajr

[garyng]

/dev/hda refers to the whole disk(from the start where the MBR and partition table is). try /dev/hda1, that is the c:\

[OErjan]

try if

mkdir /mnt/hda1

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

that SHOULD work, then put

/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat defaults  0   0

in fstab

[pcorajr]

tried that and now i get the following error:


mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,or too many mounted file systems(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

[OErjan]

the comand below might cast light

dmesg|grep hd&& dmesg|grep sd