From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 11:16:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA05147 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:16:36 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA05138 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:16:34 -0700 Received: by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.15) via UUCP id AA06848 ; Tue, 25 Jul 95 14:16:32 -0400 Received: (from jan@localhost) by bagend.atl.ga.us (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA17878; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 14:08:10 -0400 From: Jan Isley Message-Id: <199507251808.OAA17878@bagend.atl.ga.us> Subject: Re: Mounting DOS drive? To: flodin@cps204.cps.cmich.edu (Phil Flodin) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 14:08:09 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Phil Flodin" at Jul 25, 95 12:51:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 851 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Phil Flodin wrote: > I am writing this for a friend of mine. I am trying to help him > get FreeBSD-2.0.5 running on his system. Now for me it was no big deal, > I have a SCSI2 HD and CDROM and it went easy. Now my friend doesn't, he > has IDE and we are trying to install from a DOS partition. Anyway for > the life of me I can't get the partition to Mount therefore we are stuck. The command is /sbin/mount_msdos... man mount_msdos Synopsis mount_msdos [-u uid] [-g gid] [-m mask] special node I have a dos partion on wd0s1 that is mounted on /dos. Here is the line from /etc/fstab /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos rw 0 0 -- Jan Isley Nothing is permanent. Everything Changes. jan@bagend.atl.ga.us That's the one thing we know for sure in this world. But I'm still going to gripe about it. -- Calvin