Mounting DOS drive

[Paul Howarth]

Tom Capehart wrote:
> I've just installed Fedora 3 on a PC with 2 hard disks.  I'm dual 
> booting Windows XP and Fedora using grubb.  When I look under the System 
> Tools>Hardware Browser, both disks appear.  the dos disk shows fat32.  
> However, when I try to mount the disk using the "User Mount Tool" under 
> System Tools>Disk Management, I get the following error message: "There 
> are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmount.  Contact 
> your administrator."  (Unfortunately, I am the administrator.)
> 
> I used to mount dos drives in Red Hat 9 with no problem.
> 
> Any ideas?

What are the partition names of your DOS partitions?

# fdisk -l /dev/hda
# fdisk -l /dev/hdb

(assuming your drives are master & slave on first IDE controller)

Paul.