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From: jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mount DOS partition, how to?
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 04:29:12 +0200
Organization: Pressimage, France
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In article <40fuc2$mbi@abac.au.ac.th>, u3525850@au1.au.ac.th (Panaya R.) wrote:
>hi..
> I have whole first drive format to dos, and whole second drive is
>freebsd... I want to mount dos partition ... I tried..
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0 /mnt
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0a /mnt
> mount_msdos /dev/wd0 /mnt
> mount_msdos /dev/wd0a /mnt
>
> but none is works.. it reports 'invalid argument'
>
> but when I tried on floppy disk..
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
>
Don't forget a hard disk is partitionned (you know, fdisk...). So you have
to specify which partition you're speaking of:
mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
/dev/wd0 is the whole disk
/dev/wd0s1 is the first fdisk partition
Jacques.
[cc'd to questionner].
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