From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 17 23:46:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05214 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05204 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:46:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 1029Oa-0000Bj-00; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 07:46:49 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id HAA01733; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 07:46:15 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00665; Mon, 18 Jan 99 07:46:15 GMT Message-Id: <36A2E6B5.1FACD99@uk.radan.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 07:45:57 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Johns Cc: Kermit Tensmeyer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting Dos Partition: References: <026b01be40cd$2e8edae0$f2adb5cc@perch.isg.brite.net> <36A26FD8.3D58CB8C@TurnAround.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Johns wrote: > > Kermit Tensmeyer wrote: > > > I reallocated a portion of my disk [ small partion:boot;] > > [partion NTFS /dev/wd0s1], [extended dos partition - > > sysid 5 /dev/wd0s2] and FreeBSD [/dev/ws0s3{a-f}] > > > > I tried to mount_msdos /dev/wd0s2 /mnt but it failed > > becase the drive is the wrong type. > > > > How do I mount an extended dos partition under > > FreeBSD? I would really like to have a area of the > > disk where I could read files written by by NT dual > > boot system. > > > > sent by newspost; > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Don't know if this is the same problem, but DOS used to allocate > extended partitions from slice 5. So my old command to mount my > extended DOS partition was to use /dev/wd0s5. You may need to make this > device yourself as I recall having to make mine manually (cd /dev;sh > MAKEDEV wd0s5) or similar. > Also there is a driver for mounting (read-only) NTFS partitions see http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs > -- > Regards > Andrew Johns > TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd > http://www.turnaround.com.au/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message