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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ***PLEASE HELP WITH MOUNTING HD***
Date: 9 May 1997 10:30:44 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5kub0c$mpp@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
haszlaki@students.uiuc.edu (eric richard haszlakiewicz) writes:
> 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.
This won't work. The DOS partition isn't mentioned in the label
in FreeBSD.
Check out my posting to the "NEWBIE needs help" thread. This tells
you how to do this.
I'm sure it's in the FAQ/handbook too !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !