Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:29:22 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Iain Templeton <iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au> Cc: Antonio Bemfica <bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I mount a DOS ZIP disk? Message-ID: <353453C2.D250888D@san.rr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415145121.26968C-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au>
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Iain Templeton wrote: > 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. As far as I can see we number the slices "backwards" since wd0s4 according to freebsd is the first partition on my disk according to OS/2's fdisk. It's also "first" on the list for freebsd's fdisk. I could be wrong though. :) Doug (whose DOS zip disks are also found on s4) -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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