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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dciteleport.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.campus.mci.net!not-for-mail From: Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mounting dos partitions? Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:16:33 -0600 Organization: CampusMCI Lines: 31 Message-ID: <32965071.158F@auburn.campus.mci.net> References: <56i6mt$ne0@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <56lljq$hj2@anorak.coverform.lan> <56us6m$ah8@zen.hursley.ibm.com> <57203j$3si@anorak.utell.net> Reply-To: ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net NNTP-Posting-Host: s24-pm02.auburn.campus.mci.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) There is a command in FBSD2.1.5 called "mount_msdos". I use mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos which mounts the DOS C:\ filesystem to my /msdos directory in FreeBSD. ...yeah, yeah, I know IDE drives are crap ;) Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <56us6m$ah8@zen.hursley.ibm.com>, > rcjones@ writes: > : In <56lljq$hj2@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes: > >>If you partition's <= 1022Mb, try something like > >> > >> mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s1 /mnt > : > : I tried this and it said something like > : > : "msdos: mount: invalid option" .. option or paramter.. > : > : I only have bin dist installed so far.. could this be why?? > : > : Also, this is a FAT partition created under OS/2. DOS is not on the > : machine.. > > Do the device and directory exist ? If not, take a look at the > /dev/MAKEDEV script. > > -- > Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> > <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > .