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From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
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Subject: Re: Dos partition after install?
To: sdaniels@wiley.csusb.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:04:26 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199504251833.AA26569@wiley.csusb.edu> from "Scott Daniels" at Apr 25, 95 11:33:29 am
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> 
> I need some serious help.
> 
> I installed FreeBSD off the cdrom (ver 2.0) and everything worked just
> fine.  I've used my roommates knowledge to gert a sup going and make
> world, and so forth.  I am running the most recent snap and would like to
> mount my msdos parttion.  I continue to get a mount error and think the
> problem stems from not having a dos partition slice defined. Is this needed?
> 
> I've run sysinstall and tried to modify the MBR with the slice option but
> the computer tells me it can't read the MBR.  Normally this would worry me
> but the computer behaves just fine.  Is there something I'm just lost on?
> 
> If anyone has any comments or suggestions I would really appreciate it.
> 
> Scott Daniels
> 
> 
What partition is it and how did you invoke the mount command?  The most recent snap
has slice code so DOS partitions, even extanded ones, are easily mounted, now.

For example 

mount_msdos /dev/sd3s5 /f
mounts the first extended partition on /f

mount_msdos /dev/sd0s1 /c 
mounts the primary partition on sd0 on /c

you will need to create these devices with /dev/MAKEDEV.

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 Boyd Faulkner                                  faulkner@isd.tandem.com 
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