Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 08:02:32 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: charon@freethought.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting primary DOS partition Message-ID: <37313E88.6E5636B@uk.radan.com> References: <v03130305b3528879a3dc@[209.150.39.65]> <v03130300b35651938ebf@[209.150.35.229]>
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media@mail1.nai.net wrote:
>
> 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
>
That sounds like it's already mounted.
Also I thought you had to absolute path the mountpoint (not 100% sure
about this though):
mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt/DOS
HTH
> 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.
>
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