From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 7 13:24:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA07075 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 13:24:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA07061 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 13:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA00309; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 13:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 13:24:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: SCN User cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting a primary dos partition In-Reply-To: <199609071721.KAA21414@scn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, SCN User wrote: > I have dos and freebsd 2.1 setup with bootmanager on my hd in separate > primary partitions. Is it at all possible for me to mount the other > primary partition while under freebsd? If so, please send me the proper > command line entry. thanks -Don Morrison Try doing 'mount -t msdos /dev/wd1 /mnt' That may get your DOS partition in the /mnt directory. Note that this CAN DESTORY YOUR DOS PARTITION IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, especially if you have run the FIPS utility. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major