Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:13:42 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Joshua Fielden <shag@concentric.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting MSDOS Partitions.... Message-ID: <19970609101342.21598@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <339AE50B.115D18D0@concentric.net>; from Joshua Fielden on Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 05:59:55PM %2B0100 References: <339AE50B.115D18D0@concentric.net>
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Joshua Fielden:
|....I tried to mount my MS-DOS partition and it gave me many errors and
|then when I rebooted, only / is found. My first partition on my drive is
|c:\, my dos partition, then my second partition is BSD. I read the man
|page but it seemed (to me) to be singularly unhelpful. Could someone
|please enlighten me as to the correct command line to mount said
|partition, so I can pull some sources off of it?
Well, I'd suggest the FreeBSD handbook and/or FAQ at:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/docs.html
except that these do a great job of explaining how to mount an extended
partition, but seem to overlook the logical first question of how to mount
a primary.
You probably want:
# mkdir /c
# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /c (for IDE), or
# mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s1 /c (for SCSI).
In general, for determining the device name for any partition, you need to
know:
1) SCSI or IDE (first 2 characters are "sd" or "wd", respectively)
2) Which disk number (the 3rd character; For IDE,
0 = primary controller, master
1 = primary controller, slave,
2 = secondary controller, master,
3 = secondary controller, slave, etc.)
3) What slice its on (1,2,3,4 = primary disk slices
5,6,7... = DOS logical drives within an
extended partition)
Note this assumes a few things. E.g. that you fill up your lower
controllers with disks before adding to higher controllers. Also that your
disk has slices (e.g. for primary/extended DOS partitions, etc.) and thus
isn't so called "dangerously dedicated".
andall Hopper
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