Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:29:58 -0500 From: "James Hamilton" <tarrant@eatel.net> To: "BSDquestions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: battered and beaten by extended Dos partitions Message-ID: <199808291831.NAA25113@noc1.eatel.net>
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I'm fairly new to using FreeBSD, however i mail ordered the Walnut Creek CD
installation and it came with a massivly thick book that has been able to
help me through any difficulties I've had with it prior to this past week.
I partitioned off a nice 500MB chunk and installed FreeBSD onto it will
very little difficulty and have been blindly fumbling around learning as I
go. Finally, about a week ago I decided I needed a way to move data from my
FAT32 partion(for Windows 95) to my BSD partion and i sectioned off another
small chunk of around 120MB and partioned it FAT16. This is where my
problem comes in, I can't get my Logical drive D: mounted in BSD, no matter
how much I beg, pray, or read it just doesn't seem to want to work.
i started off trying mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 /mnt
and later moved on to trying just about any wd0* device..wd0s5a-f as well.
I get the same error message no matter what i try(as long as it is a valid
msdos partition.
'device not configured' I don't know exactly what configuring the
device would entail, i created the wd0s5 dev by the command
(from the dev directory) ./MAKEDEV wd0s5
this is what my 4 gig IDE hard drive looks like acording to Fdisk
*fdisk for Windows 95
Partition Status Type Volume Mbytes System Usage
1 NON-DOS 502
12%
C: 2 A PRI-DOS 3491 FAT32 85%
3 EXT-DOS 118
3%
Extended Partition Logical Dos Drives
Drv Volume Mbytes System Usage
D BUFFER 118 FAT16 94%
*fdisk run by sysinstall from the CD installation
offset size end name Ptype Desc subtype
flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused
0
63 1028097 1028159 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C
1028160 63 1028222 - 6 unused 0
1028223 7148862 8177084 wd0s1 2 fat 11
8177085 240975 8418059 wd0s3 4 extended 15
8418060 756 8418815 - 6 unused 0
I formatted D: from Windows 95 and have no trouble at all copying data to
it, so i'm
hoping this is just me overlooking some elusive command that will FreeBSD
search
for the logical drive.
Thanks.
James Hamilton
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