From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 0: 4:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB44D1509F for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 00:04:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10fICa-00036v-0A; Thu, 6 May 1999 07:04:13 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id IAA01915; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:03:42 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA02299; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:03:40 +0100 Message-ID: <37313E88.6E5636B@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 08:02:32 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: charon@freethought.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting primary DOS partition References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message