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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Finding My ms-dos partition
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 13:45:36 -0800
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Ronald Wright wrote:
> so anyways I got it figured out now I think but I want to be able to see
> my MS-Dos partition because I downloaded XFree86 to it and I can't find
> it.  It was there as wd0s1 during install and I can't mount it wich is

Ah, pity you didn't assign it a mountpoint in the label editor when you
saw it or it would have been there waiting for you automatically when
the system came up. :-)

Try this as root:

mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt

And you should have your DOS files.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project