From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 19:19:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6D914E3A for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from paranor.embt.net (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA17167; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:22:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991020221738.00b5f958@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:17:38 -0400 To: "Shannon Wheeler" , "Mark Ovens" , "Adam Ford" From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Cc: In-Reply-To: <03f601bf1b43$bfc23d80$0307070a@shannon-s> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> root@attack>mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /windows >> ^^^^^^^^^^ >>Is it really wd0s2? Windows needs to be in the first partition so >>I'd expect it to be wd0s1. Sorry, that's just not true. >I have a 12G drive and I couldn't get FreeBSD to work in the last half of the drive because it only saw 16383 cylinders rather than the 21xxx that there actually was. So I put FreeBSD in the first partition and Win95 in the second. Dandy. >I use a freeware partition manager to select which to boot from here at work but at home with the same setup I use fdisk to specify the active partition. Windows has no problem booting from the second partition as long as it's a primary partition and marked active. If it works.. I'd use a boot manager, it's easier. >I don't know for sure whether this would work if the first partition was also a DOS partition but I think you'd have a hard time creating more than one DOS partition anyway. > What's wrong with lots of DOS partitions? To the original poster with the problem: does /dev/wd0s2 exist? does /modules/msdos.ko exist? what does 'fdisk wd0' output? Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message