From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 22 14:52:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6341737B521 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 14:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.156]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA3432; Mon, 22 May 2000 14:53:42 -0700 Message-ID: <3929AC4A.7FB702DD@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:53:14 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryan Otteson Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A problem with mounting References: <006a01bfc43c$9c4c6f40$30b58dd0@arescomputer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Bryan Otteson wrote: > > I don't know that this should go on this board, but the "hackers" > postings was getting me over 30 e-mails a day and I can't sift through > all that :( > > I need to mount my dos partition so I can install a newer version of > XFree86 to support my video card and I didn't get any manuals with my > FBSD (I got it for $0.99 on linuxmall.com), so I need to know the > correct syntax to do that. It is my C: drive I need to mount...I have > win98 on it, plus my partition for FBSD if that info's relevant. > > Bryan mount -t msdos /dev/wd0?? /mnt (replace the ?? as appropriate) You may not have a printed manual, but you do have online manuals. Do a "man mount" for the mount syntax. You can also look in /usr/share/doc for some documentation. -- David Johnson... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message