Mount Questions for Linux

[Schola]

Ok, I finally got a version of Linux to work. I swear X Windows hates this computer... but anyways. I need to know how to mount my two IDE Drives that have like movies and MP3's on them.. They are listed as /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.

Now I tried this mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/storage and it told me /mnt/storage does not exist. So how do I create this. I know it must be something easy. I have look for something similar at linuxnewbie.org and I tried reading the man page on mount, but I didn't see anything that looked like it could help.

So thanks for your help

schola

 

[nsafreak]

Pretty simple, type in su and enter the root password, then enter mkdir /mnt/storage .

 

[Damascus]

Heh yup, the directory that you are mounting the drive in must exist
before you try it.

 

[Priit]

Heh, this is pretty basic: you are trying to mount disk not partition. Try /dev/hda1 instead 🙂

 

[Schola]

<< Heh, this is pretty basic: you are trying to mount disk not partition. Try /dev/hda1 instead >>



Not for me, Im a real newbie when it comes to linux. Ok so I want to go make that directory in the /mnt and then do that mount command.

Thanks a lot guys. This place is the best.

schola