From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 21:54:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from css.tuu.utas.edu.au (css.tuu.utas.edu.au [131.217.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA17734 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 04:53:53 GMT (envelope-from iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au) Received: from localhost (iaint@localhost) by css.tuu.utas.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA27260; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:53:11 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:53:10 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: Antonio Bemfica cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I mount a DOS ZIP disk? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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