Try vfat for a file type instead of msdos.  I used that under rhat 6.2 when
I had nt running fat on the other partition.

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>    1. Large HD and VMWare's raw partitions (Subba Rao)
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> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:09:32 +0000
> From: Subba Rao <subb3 at attglobal.net>
> To: Twin Cities Linux <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
> Subject: [TCLUG] Large HD and VMWare's raw partitions
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> 
> One of my Linux system has a slave disk which is 20GB.
> 
> (0)root at myhost:/~# fdisk /dev/hdc
> 
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2646.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> 
> Command (m for help)
> 
> (0)root at myhost:~/
> 
> The disk partitions at the begining of the disk are Linux ext2
> filesystems.
> Four partitions at the end of the disk are FAT16/msdos. The DOS partitions
> have been defined in /etc/fstab but at bootup time, these file systems are
> not getting mounted. I cannot even mount them manually. When I tried to
> mount
> them,
> 	mount -t auto /dev/hdc5 /msdos
> 
> then the filesystem is mounted as a ext2 filesystems. When I try to mount
> them
> as msdos filesystems,
> 
> 	mount -t msdos /dev/hdc5 /msdos
> 
> then the following message appears:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc5,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> The goal is to create a raw partition for VMWare on the /dev/hdc5
> partition and
> install NT over it rely on M$ systems.
> 
> How can I create raw partitions for VMware on large HDs and mount them? 
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Subba Rao
> subb3 at attglobal.net
> http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
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