From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 11:16:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA24076 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:16:57 -0700 Received: from jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil [129.52.114.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA24067 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:16:54 -0700 Received: (from news@localhost) by jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04897; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:14:29 GMT Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:14:29 +0000 () From: "Jeffrey D. Dean " To: Howland Jared Agnew cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting dos In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Howland Jared Agnew wrote: > If you could please write me and tell me how to mount my msdos > partition. I have read the faq and the man pages and still cant get it > to work. Thanks in advance. > H. Jared Agnew > ES > You need to do a few small things. 1) Find out what drive, and partition your MSDOS drive is on. 2) Find out what /dev entry cooresponds to that partition. for example /dev/sd0s1 is mine (first partition, first drive on a SCSI interface card. 3) make /dev/????? readable & writable by everyone. i.e. chmod 777 /dev/sd????? (or wd?????) 4) Then it should mount!!! like this: cd / mkdir dos mount_msdos /dev/????? /dos Presto!!! Jeff -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Jeffrey D. Dean SrA - - Computer Technician / Programmer - - Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio - - root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=