From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 10: 4: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web11803.mail.yahoo.com (web11803.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D93937B403 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:04:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011017170404.18122.qmail@web11803.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.170.168.118] by web11803.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:04:04 PDT Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:04:04 -0700 (PDT) From: X Philius Reply-To: xphilius@yahoo.com Subject: Re: How to mount an extended DOS partition To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20011017113208.D91685@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Dan, Excellent! That did it. Thanks much. Jason --- Dan Nelson wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message