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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!metro.atlanta.com!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux8.cso.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail From: haszlaki@students.uiuc.edu (eric richard haszlakiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ***PLEASE HELP WITH MOUNTING HD*** Date: 9 May 1997 04:59:56 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5kub0c$mpp@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <33727176.1201@continet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux8.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40616 Steve Burns (sburns@efn.org) wrote: : I need help to mount a dos partition on a FreeBSD 2.2.1 system. I have a : Seagate HD, 550megs, split in half. I need to mount the dos partition so : that I can copy over a tar archive to put onto another hard drive. I : tried 'mount_msdos /dev/wd0a /dos' and it says bad block dev. Any help : would be greatly appreciated. try: disklabel wd0 to find out what your disklabel says. One of these will most likely say MSDOS for the fstype. The letter to the left goes at the # below: mount_msdos /dev/wd0# /dos If there isn't one that says MSDOS you'll need to fill it in, probably by using fdisk to find out the size and start.