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From: Geordan Rosario <geordan@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to mount /dos?
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 11:03:32 -0700
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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On Wed, 24 May 1995, K.C. Furge wrote:

> For DOS only partitions on a hard drive, they can be found in the e slice
> i.e. /dev/wd0e, /dev/wd1e.  I have the following entry in my fstab file
> that mounts my second IDE drive which is a dos only drive:
> 
> /dev/wd1e	/dos	msdos rw 1 1
> 
Okay.  I've tried mounting it (read-write) and the system rebooted.  I 
will try mounting read-only, but not now (I'm online! :] ).

-Geordan

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