From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 23:13:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA09717 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:13:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (h196-7-192-146.iafrica.com [196.7.192.146]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA09697 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA01033; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 09:07:53 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199602290707.JAA01033@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: mount_msdos To: coredump@nervosa.com (invalid opcode) Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 09:07:52 +0200 (SAT) Cc: mikefish@lydia.bradley.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "invalid opcode" at Feb 28, 96 02:45:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, invalid opcode wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Michael Shover wrote: > > > i am trying to mount a 40 MB dos partition that is physically on > > the same hard drive as my copy of freebsd. i have tried the mount_msdos > > command many times, but i can not seem to get it right. for the > > device, i am using fd0 and for the mount directory /root/dos. this > > fd0 is your floppy drive. You need to know which partition your DOS drive > is, for instance, if it's on partition 2, mount -t msdos /mnt /dev/wd0s1. Or, even better: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt :-) -- Robert Nordier