Write to FAT32 or NTFS with SuSE 9.0

Newbie Alert. Sorry!

Here's my problem; I have 3 physical hard disks. One of them (30gb) has Suse on it, and the other 2 are clean FAT32 drives of 70gb and 40 gb. My Suse has my music collection and other important files (around 20 gb), and I want to be able to get them onto one of my other HDs, and readable by Windows, somehow without having to resort to burning a load of cds. Is there any simple way around this?

I've got copies of Mandrake 9.2, Slackware Live, Knoppix, Partition Magic and Windows 95,98 and XP if they may help me.

Hope you can help

Martin

It fairly easy to simply copy it directly onto the FAT drives. SuSE and similar distributions usually mount your other hard drives automagically, so check in /mnt if they aren't already there and mounted.

I've tried to mount the fat32 disks and the following error keeps popping up:

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems



Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda6,
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?)


:(

did u specify the whole "mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows" command.

if u cant work out what fs is where, type "fdisk -l /dev/hda"

Thanks for your reply Hellmasker!

This is what my terminal spat at me!:

]65-mia-2:/home/martin # mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows
mount: mount point /mnt/windows does not exist
65-mia-2:/home/martin # fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 2 9729 78140160 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2 9729 78140128+ b Win95 FAT32



Any idea what I should do?

Apologies for being so clueless.

Martin

mkdir /mnt/windows

The mount point does not exist error means u have tried to mount a drive at a place(directory) that does not exist.

then try it again.