From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 23:30:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07795 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07685 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:29:37 GMT (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29005; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <353453C2.D250888D@san.rr.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:29:22 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Iain Templeton CC: Antonio Bemfica , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I mount a DOS ZIP disk? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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