From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 09:03:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00983 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:03:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ll.mit.edu (LLMAIL.LL.MIT.EDU [129.55.12.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00878 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fitch@ll.mit.edu) Received: (from smap@localhost) by ll.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19387 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:58:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806261558.LAA19387@ll.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 12:01:52 -0400 From: George Fitch Reply-To: fitch@ll.mit.edu Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mount_msdos command Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am trying the mount_msdos command. It works with the 3.5 diskette (fd0) but not with SCSI hard disk which I think is sd0s1 based on what is reported by /stand/sysinstall. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, George Fitch freebsd# mount /dev/sd0s2a on / (local) /dev/sd0s2f on /usr (local) /dev/sd0s2e on /var (local) procfs on /proc (local) freebsd# ls .cshrc .login_conf .profile dos .history .mail_aliases .rhosts floppy .login .mailrc .shrc freebsd# mount_msdos /dev/sd0s1 /usr/home/fitch/dos mount_msdos: /dev/sd0s1: Invalid argument freebsd# ls floppy freebsd# mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /usr/home/fitch/floppy freebsd# ls floppy xglint.tgz >>> here is info from /stand/sysinstall novice installation Disk name: sd0 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 522 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8385930 sectors Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 2088387 2088449 sd0s1 2 fat 11 2088450 6297480 8385929 sd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C 8385930 2384 8388313 - 6 unused 0 George fitch@ll.mit.edu '92 DUCATI 900SS - TEAM PACHYDERM (978) 251-0472 Home (781) 981-4770 Work To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message