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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!news.mathworks.com!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!tfs.com!usenet From: Mohamad Hannaoui <mohamad@times> Subject: Re: Mount a DOS drive Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <NEWTNews.799734548.13328.mohamad@slip-mohamad.tfs.com> Lines: 33 Sender: usenet@tfs.com (Mr. News) Organization: TRW Financial Systems X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage References: <D82y3q.9x1@tfs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 04:20:35 GMT In article <D82y3q.9x1@tfs.com>, <mohamad@tfs.com> writes: > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > Path: tfs.com!mohamad > From: mohamad@tfs.com (Mohamad Hannaoui) > Subject: Mount a DOS drive > Message-ID: <D82y3q.9x1@tfs.com> > Keywords: mount dos > Sender: usenet@tfs.com (Mr. News) > Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA > X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] > Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 00:45:26 GMT > > I am running FreeBSD 2.0. My system has 2 DOS drives connected > to an IDE adaptor and 1 SCSI drive with the FreeBSD. > When I want to boot from DOS I put the IDE drives in the setup, and > when I want to boot from UNIX I remove them. My DOS drives are > recognized when I boot from UNIX. > The question is, am I suppose to be able to mount those two > DOS drives? and if so, how is it done? > > I tried mount_msdos, but that didn't work. I am able to dd from > the drives if that tells anything. > > > Thanks, > > mohamad H. <mohamad@tfs.com> > Ok, I'll answer my own question. I was trying to mount the wrong partition. I found the correct partition by using disklabel wd0. The partition to mount is the one with MSDOS next to it.