From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 18:14:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA26542 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 18:14:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoda.fdt.net (root@yoda.fdt.net [205.229.48.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA26536 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 18:14:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn015-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.16]) by yoda.fdt.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA00256; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:14:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:13:27 -0500 (EST) From: Frank X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: Gianmarco Giovannelli cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mount Msdos In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960125224215.00678ebc@masternet.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > Ok, the first obstacle are going.... But now I'd like to know why the > FreeBsd refuse to mount a Primary dos partition : > > the command # mount_msdos /dev/sd1 /msdos will not work.... > > My Hd are 2 both connected to a A2940uw , the first is 1 gigabyte partioned > half Bsd, half Win95 ... the second is a Quantum 2 gigabyte with only a > primary fat partition on it that I'd like to use from Win95 and Bsd.... > Where is the mistake ? :-) > You have to give mount a slice number. Try mount -t msdos /dev/sd1s1 /msdos