From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 2 22:57:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55EB14E76 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 22:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.1.7.99]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990503055717.WLUE24898.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a>; Sun, 2 May 1999 22:57:17 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990502225712.00a3fa60@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 22:57:12 -0700 To: media@mail1.nai.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: mounting primary DOS partition In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:01 PM 5/2/99 -0400, media@mail1.nai.net wrote: >When I'm in the FreeBSD installer, and choose to mount my primary DOS >partition, it asks for a name (it asks me to enter a number followed by a >"/"). > >Which number should I choose?? I don't offhand recall that prompt... the primary DOS partition is usually called wd0s1 (if you're using IDE drives, and sd0s1 if you're using SCSI). If it's asking where distribution is, you obviously picked the right number last time :) >Since I have 3.1-RELEASE more or less up and running, which command will >prove I can access my DOS partition from FreeBSD?? cd /mnt mkdir DOS mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 DOS cd DOS you can play around with it like a normal FreeBSD drive. Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -Voltaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message