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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mount drive problems -- Newbie
Date: 13 Mar 1997 00:20:22 GMT
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In article <01bc2e8b$f45b7ea0$642b74cf@default>,
	"Kathleen Ramsey" <kramsey@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> I'm running 2.1.5 on a P5 200 MHz. I have an IDE and I cannot mount an
> extended DOS area a floppy drive  or my ATAPI Toshiba  12X CD.

Extended DOS partitions don't work.  A primary DOS partition may
be mounted if it is <500 Megabytes.  I still wouldn't suggest it
unless you REALLY need to.  NOTE: larger ones will APPEAR to mount,
but will trash your disk.

A floppy disk should be a no-brainer:

  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

Check the probe messages to see if your CDROM was recognised at
boot time.  Look in /var/log/messages.  I expect you installed
from the IDE CD and so it should be recognised by the kernel
alright.  This should get it:

  mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /mnt

If the CDROM was not picked up in the boot, you may have to
adjust your kernel and recompile.  This is easy, but you will
need the handbook.

> I installed
> from a DOS partition and ended up writing a perl strip html's so I can at
> least try to wade my way thru the Doc files,  but it is frustrating not

I assume you're reading the handbook html's without a browser.  Ouch.
/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.ascii is a plain text version.
You will find that easier.

Please don't give up on FreeBSD.  It is wonderful!

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON