From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 16 06:47:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA18037 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 06:47:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu [136.165.243.183]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA18031 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 06:47:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wangel@localhost) by wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (8.7.3/8.6.12) id JAA07492; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:45:05 GMT Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:45:02 +0000 () From: Wicked Angel To: Bruce Evans cc: Freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dos Extended In-Reply-To: <199601161414.BAA26050@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > > It actually says that the feature of mounting DOS extended partitions > isn't present in 2.1, but should be in 2.2. Actually, this feature > was introduced in 2.0.5. Actually^2, this feature will never be > supported. You mount logical drives, not the extended partitions that > contain the logical drives. > hehe, guess I misread ;) 0 > > Is it the second DOS partition and the first logical drive in the first > extended partition? That's the the first logical drive so it is slice 5, > i.e., sd0s5 if your disk is SCSI. > > mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s5 /somewhere > > Bruce > Well, my first dos partition is /dev/wd0s1, and teh extended partition is wd0s2(being the second partition) so I was trying to mount that! I just mounted my extended partiontion now ;) (as the fifth partition slice), it works great, I apprecaite it! Thanks again!!! Gary