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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MS-DOS partition mounting. Date: 6 Feb 1995 04:02:12 -0000 Organization: None Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3h4704$bb@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <3gm8ju$p06@jake.esu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Richard Weber (avatar@esu.edu) wrote: : I have 2 partitions on my WD 340 Cavier (first partition is FreeBSD, 3rd : is Dos) and I would like to know how to mount the dos partition while in : FreeBSD. I need to transfer files between the two systems, but it seems : the only way that I can possibly do it is by copying them to floppy, and : then mounting the floppy drive which I find to be a rather ridiculous : solution for this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You need to specify a dos partition in you disklabel - mine is: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2074624 2048000 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 1000 - 2012) b: 71680 4122624 swap # (Cyl. 2013 - 2047) c: 2146304 2048000 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 1000 - 2047) d: 4194685 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2048*) h: 1228768 32 MSDOS # (Cyl. 0*- 599*) (I know, the 'd' size is wrong - it just won't stick!) Note, DOS fs's start 1Mb past the start of the partition ! man disklabel man disktab man fstab -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....