From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 09:56:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F2416A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:56:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tcbug.org (12-218-40-24.client.mchsi.com [12.218.40.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32D143D39 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:56:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@ns1.tcbug.org) Received: by ns1.tcbug.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id A8915BAD6; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:55:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:55:43 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel To: "Ralph M. Los" Message-ID: <20040410165543.GF20361@ns1.tcbug.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:56:25 -0000 On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:46:41PM -0400, Ralph M. Los wrote: > Hi, > I've got my FreeBSD box as a file-server. I added in a 60gb > disk I want to copy the data off of, and format for FreeBSD, slice out, > etc. When I go to /stand/sysinstall and try to label "ad5" (the added > 60gb disk), I get an error. I go to Label, and select "Mount Point" by > pressing "m", and get this error: > > Fatal Error: Bogus partition under cursor??? - PRESS ANY KEY TO QUIT > > after which it promptly throws me back to my prompt, erroring out of > sysinstall. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to mount > that disk read-only for now? > > Thanks all in advance. not sure if this is what you want, but here's what I 'think' you might be looking for: mkdir /dos mount_ntfs -r /dev/ad5s0 /dos Hope this helps. Josh Paetzel