From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 19:56:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.javanet.com (mail1.javanet.com [205.219.162.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC7214EEF for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 19:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from media@mail1.nai.net) Received: from [209.150.36.139] (ct-hartford-us1338.javanet.com [209.150.36.139]) by mail1.javanet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA04939; Wed, 5 May 1999 22:56:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 22:56:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990502225712.00a3fa60@mail> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: charon@freethought.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: media@mail1.nai.net Subject: Re: mounting primary DOS partition Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:57 PM -0700 5/2/99, charon@freethought.org wrote: > >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 I tried that. When I typed "mkdir DOS" it said "Permission Denied," so I looged back on as root. After that, when I typed in "mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 DOS" it responded: msdos: /dev/wd0s1: Device busy After that I type, "cd DOS," then "ls -lag," and it appears empty except for . and .. >you can play around with it like a normal FreeBSD drive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message