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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!News.HTWM.De!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!news.uni-jena.de!news.uni-leipzig.de!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting msdos fs and cdrom fs Date: 14 Apr 1996 18:49:43 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4krhc7$7h3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4kr1kt$eln@fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) writes: >environment. I have found out how to mount a primary dos partition, but >I cannot firgure out if and how to do so with extended dos partitions. The extended DOS partitions are called `slices' in FreeBSD (to differentiate them from what Unix calls `partition', that is, it comes with partitions of its own traditionally). The convention is that the first four slices are pre-allocated for the four fdisk table entries (regardless whether they are valid or not), while the following are being used for extended partitions. The first slices are /dev/[r]wd0s1 through /dev/[r]wd0s4, you get the picture. Since it's impossible to ship the system with pre-configured device nodes for ``all'' slices and partitions, you gotta create the device nodes yourself (by now): cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wd0s5 (for example). You should then be able to mount your DOS partition by mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 /dos2 Likewise for slices 6 and 7, should they exist. >Another point is mounting IDE CD-ROMs. Though unsupported, the 2.1R CD-ROM contains preliminary code for ATAPI CD-ROMs. Check the kernel.ATAPI, or the appropriate kernel config file under /sys/i386/conf/. It is, however, known to not work with all sort of drives. (The situation has been improved much meanwhile.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)