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#! rnews 2376 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!gateway.sequent.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.walltech.com!hsno.wco.com!news.wco.com!news From: "Daniel Keller" <dkeller@psln.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,list.freebsd-hackers,muc.lists.freebsd.hackers,muc.lists.freebsd.hardware,muc.lists.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: mounting extended DOS partitions Date: 6 Sep 1996 05:16:25 GMT Organization: West Coast Online's News Server - Not responsible for content Lines: 43 Message-ID: <01bb9bb7$c3adfa60$683d9bce@dkeller> References: <01bb99bb$45e6ac60$6c3d9bce@dkeller> <50il9h$rn7@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chester04.psln.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 The Viper <viper@buri.kuentos.guam.net> wrote in article <50il9h$rn7@lehi.kuentos.guam.net>... > Daniel Keller (dkeller@psln.com) wrote: > : I need help mounting an extended DOS partition. I have 2 Hard drives, wd1 > : is a 200MB drive that is running FreeBSD 2.1.5, wd0 is a 1GB drive running > : windows 95 and is partitiond in to 200MB drives C-G. I can mount the C > : drive by using: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos/c. But how can I mount the > : other partitions > : (d-g)? > > I have the same problem with Win95. BSD will cheerfully mount my primary > DOS partition (c:) but it only laughs at me when I try to mount d:, which > is in the extended partition on my disk. BTW, BSD, which is ever-so-much > smarter than DOS, lets me use the last 3-4 megabytes on my HD that DOS > so wantonly discarded. So I have a pretty wierd looking drive: > > wd0s1 (c:) > wd0s2 (FreeBSD) > wd0s3 (d: [extended partition]) > wd0s4 (FreeBSD, using what DOS didn't want, about 4 megs, mounted > in /usr/foo) > > But when BootEasy appears, it says this: > F1 dos > F2 BSD > F4 BSD > > despite the fact that wd0s4 is set non-bootable. Can I edit BootEasy to > not display that? Or is there another boot manager that I can use instead? > Just an aesthetic thing anyway. > Hi, I still haven't figured out how to mount my extended Dos partitions but as far as the boot manager goes, the one I am using is OS Boot Select (OS-BS). I got it from the tools\?? directory on the freebsd site. It lets you chose what you display. Daniel.