From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 21 6:40:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F7A15A1C for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 06:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10kpWm-000OS1-0A; Fri, 21 May 1999 13:39:56 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id OAA03702; Fri, 21 May 1999 14:38:54 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA25831; Fri, 21 May 1999 14:38:52 +0100 Message-ID: <3745619A.13DC86D1@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:37:30 +0100 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: Jim Freeze Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to Mount and How to Share with DOS References: <001101bea38b$15aa0c40$346ec8d0@lexmark.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Jim Freeze wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 3.1 on a Dell Latitude CPi laptop. Also, > FreeBSD is installed > on the c:\ drive along with W98. > > When I login I cannot access the cdrom drive through the /cdrom > mount point. > I tried various forms of the mount command, but was unsuccessful. > (I don't remember the exact commands I tried). However, I was able > to mount > the cdrom by modifiying /etc/fstab and removing the noauto > statement then executing > > mount -a > > Can someone instruct me on how to properly mount the cdrom from the > command > line without changing fstab. If there is an entry in fstab then mount /cdrom should do it. If not try mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0 /cdrom (change wcd0 to the correct device for your machine) > In addition, I need to mount the floppy drive. I have tried various > forms of the following > > mount /dev/fdc0 /dos > fdc0 is the controller, fd0 is the drive. Like the CD, if there's an fstab entry then mount /dos or, if not then mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /dos > with no luck. > > I have read several online docs, but either I am missing something > or the process is > not a simple as the docs imply. > > Sharing... > I am also interested in sharing FreeBSD files with my W98 OS. I have > attempted to create > an extended (logical) partition that both OS's can read, but have > had no luck. > When I create an extended partition with PartitionMagic and create a > logical drive > within that partition, the drivemapper within the BSD install only > sees the extended > partition and labels it as unknown. Therefore I am unable to set a > mount point from here. > > Has someone done this before. If it is not possible, what are my > other options to share > data between W98 and FreeBSD? > "logical drives" inside an extended partition *always* start at slice 5, so mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 /mnt is what you need for the first logical drive, wd0s6 for the second and so on... (it'll be da0 if it's a SCSI disk) HTH > Thanks > > > ================== > Dr Jim D. Freeze > jim@freeze.org > ================== -- 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