Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:14:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@plutotech.com> To: Mongoos411@aol.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cant mount hard drive Message-ID: <199904160014.SAA02893@dune.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <d7b49231.2447cc0f@aol.com>
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In article <d7b49231.2447cc0f@aol.com> you write:
>hey guys I cant mount a hard drive(windows 95, which has my x-windows
>install).
>I type: mount_msdos /dev/wd0 /mnt
>it says "bad bpb" or "device not configured" and then usually displays the
>synopsis if the command.
/dev/wd0 is the entire hard drive : partition table followed by each of the
partitions in only.
You want your DOS partition.
As root
fdisk wd0
will give you a list of partitions. One line will give you something like
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 12,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA)
Take the partition number, and mount it. In this case,
mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /mnt
would do the trick.
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