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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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