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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)

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