Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:53:10 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton <iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au> To: Antonio Bemfica <bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I mount a DOS ZIP disk? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415145121.26968C-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413181558.7032A-100000@militzer.me.tuns.ca>
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Antonio Bemfica wrote: > How do I mount a DOS (FAT16) ZIP disk? I have no problems with ZIP disks > with the FreeBSD filesystem - "mount /dev/sd0 /zip" does it fine, but with > DOS formatted disks, > > "mount_msdos /dev/sd0 /zip" > or > "mount -t msdos /dev/sd0 /zip" > > result in a > > "mount_msdos: /dev/sd0: Invalid argument" error > > Any hints? Thanks > No list response, hmm, I'll bite... I always found that mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /zip works. I guess that the ZIP disk has a hard disk partition table, which has the DOS bit as "slice" 4. Iain Templeton 3rd Year CSE Student Uni of Tasmania iain.at.ugh.net.au <- I appear to be paranoid Sigh, my sending address is invalid, try s/depravitas/css/g; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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