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From: Brad Hendrickse <bradh@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Mounting a DOS filesystem
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> When I try mounting my "D:" dos drive which shows up under BSD as
> /dev/wd2s1 I get an error saying "invalid type".  The command I use is:
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s1 /dos_d

 Try 'mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s5 /dos_d'.  FreeBSD seems to claim the first
four slices for itself..


--brad                                                    I'm a FreeBSD user--

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