Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:01:29 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: adrian@virginia.edu, Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting a DOS Partition Message-ID: <19971111230129.25635.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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Hi Doug! Have you looked at a file called LINT. I wonder if that is what you are looking for. It should be in: /sys/i386/conf/LINT ---"Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Doug Jolley wrote: > > > Specifically, I'm inquiring about how to mount a DOS partition. > > I assume that it's something like: > > > > mount -t msdos /dev/??? /MountDir > > > > It's what replaces the question marks that baffles me. I think > > this is a special case of the more general question, "How do > > I tell what the filenames in the /dev directory relate to?" > > Can someone please enlighten me? Thanks for any help. > > > > ... doug > > Well, alot of it comes from experience I suppose. Take note of > what devices are found when you machine boots, e.g. sd0, sd1, wd0, fd0, > etc. You can find out what type of devices these are by looking at the > man pages in section 4, the device driver section. e.g. "man 4 sd". The > pages often describe the expected naming scheme for various devices. You > can also look at the /dev/MAKDEV script to see what devices can be made > using default names. > > Note that disks have lot of device files associated with them. > There is one block and one raw device node for each disk, as well as > another pair for each disk partition. You can find out more about > expected usage of various disk partiton names in the diskpart(8) > manpage. > > Adrian > -- > adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and > System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, > Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... > http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ > > __________________________________________________________________ Sent by Yahoo! Mail. Get your free e-mail at http://mail.yahoo.com
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