wrong major or minor number

[Mike Coleman]

"jared" <jared at mail.ru> writes:
> I am running Redhat 7.0 on a PIII 500MHz and I am trying to mount my FAT32
> drives.  When i try 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /40' I am returned with "wrong
> major or minor number"

Looking up that error string, it looks like one cause could be that your
kernel wasn't compiled with vfat or dosfs support (or maybe those modules
haven't been loaded, for whatever reason).

--Mike

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