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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 1997 14:18:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Peter Kipfer <prkipfer@immd9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: accessing DOS extended partitions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970210141642.459C-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <9702101953.ZM4643@faui90i.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

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On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Peter Kipfer wrote:

> The splitted DOS partition C is read/write -able without problems.
> The problem now is: I cannot mount my extended DOS partitions drives D and E:
> (with the GENERIC and my own kernel build) the command looks like
> 
> [root]# mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s1 /dos_d
> msdos: mount: Invalid argument

The extended partitions can be mounted, but you have to mount from slice 5
on up, so for your first logical disk, it's mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s5
/dos_d.  I think.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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