From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 9:32:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1210E37B408 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9HGW8b36149; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:32:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:32:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: X Philius Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to mount an extended DOS partition Message-ID: <20011017113208.D91685@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20011017162301.8385.qmail@web11802.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011017162301.8385.qmail@web11802.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 17), X Philius said: > I hasve a tri-boot machine (Win98, Win2K and FreeBSD), and I would > like to use the same extended partition for files, sharing it between > all three OS's. I have successfully mounted a primary DOS partition > using the mount_msdos command, but I get an error when I try to mount > an extended partition (mount_msdos: /dev/ad2s2: Invalid argument). Is > there another command I can use, or is this not possible? Thanks in > advance. You don't want to mount the extended partition itself; you want to mount the logical partition inside it. They start at s5, so try /dev/ad2s5 first. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message