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From: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com (Howard Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Mounting slice of extended DOS :(
Date: 17 Apr 1996 20:35:28 GMT
Organization: disorganization
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Searching through the web site it seems this has been asked before,
but the solution I'm pasting below didn't work for me. The logical
drive I'm trying to get at is the first logical drive in the second
partition of wd0.  Applying the technique quoted below failed to work;
wd0 only has 4 normal (wd0x) slices.

Anyone have any thoughts?  Thanks!

-- 
Howard Goldstein              <hg@n2wx.ampr.org>     http://www.tapr.org/~n2wx/


pasted from www.freebsd.org search on 'extended AND partition'
On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Bruce Evans wrote:

> 
> It actually says that the feature of mounting DOS extended
partitions
> isn't present in 2.1, but should be in 2.2.  Actually, this feature
> was introduced in 2.0.5.  Actually^2, this feature will never be
> supported.  You mount logical drives, not the extended partitions
that
> contain the logical drives.
> 
hehe, guess I misread ;)
0
> 
> Is it the second DOS partition and the first logical drive in the
first
> extended partition?  That's the the first logical drive so it is
slice 5,
> i.e., sd0s5 if your disk is SCSI.
> 
>       mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s5 /somewhere
> 
> Bruce
> 
Well, my first dos partition is /dev/wd0s1, and teh extended partition
is 
wd0s2(being the second partition) so I was trying to mount that!

I just mounted my extended partiontion now ;) (as the fifth partition 
slice), it works great, I apprecaite it!