From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 24 06:21:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08381 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:21:29 -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 GAA08362 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:21:22 -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 104QPP-0002OS-00; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:21:04 +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 OAA01202; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:20:30 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28112; Sun, 24 Jan 99 14:20:27 GMT Message-Id: <36AB2BFD.FA8B8D4@uk.radan.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:19:41 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: David Abdemoulaie Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error using extended dos partitions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Abdemoulaie wrote: > > Hi, > I am having trouble using my Extended DOS partitions with FreeBSD 2.2.8 I > read in the back of the little book that came with it how to do it by > typing "mount -t msdos ". I'm positive I'm > putting in the appropriate values, but just to make sure I've tried every > single one. Every time I try to mount it I get the following message. > msdos: /dev/wd0s2 Logical drives in extended partitions start at slice 5. wd0s2 will be the extended partition itself, but although it is assigned a device you can't do anything with it. The first logical drive in your extended partition will be wd0s5, the second wd0s6 etc. You may have to MAKEDEV the device nodes. HTH. > Jan 24 03:32:37 dabdemou /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): bad bpb > Jan 24 03:32:37 dabdemou /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): bad bpb > > I've tried using every device in the /dev folder just in case I'm wrong > about which one it should be.. and still no luck. I know that there isn't > anything wrong with them because they both appear fine in Windows 98. Oh, > they are both FAT32 extended dos partitions, in case that makes any > difference. Thank you for your time. > > David Abdemoulaie > > 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