From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 05:42:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03370 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 05:42:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dynamic.local.net (max1-54.columbus.megsinet.net [209.81.172.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03365 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 05:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@devrycols.edu) Received: from insomnia.local.net (jmutter@insomnia.local.net [10.0.0.3]) by dynamic.local.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06716; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:47:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@devrycols.edu) Received: from localhost (jmutter@localhost) by insomnia.local.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA04056; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:46:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@devrycols.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: insomnia.local.net: jmutter owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:46:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jm7996@devrycols.edu To: larry_nilsen cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: copying port from msdos? In-Reply-To: <361F124C.6131F2C7@eee.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > #mount -t /dev/dos_disc_device_name_here /mnt Should be: mount -t msdos /dev/wdXsY /mnt X is the bios drive (0 for the first drive, 1 for the second drive, 2 for the third, and 3 for the fourth) Assuming IDE of course. Y is the slice, since it's dos we're talking about, it's probably safe to assume that you're using slice 1 Assuming that your DOS partition is on the 1st partition of the 1st drive, this will work: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt Then, 'cd' into /mnt and you'll find you DOS drive. Good luck.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message