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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:33:45 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Brad Hendrickse <bradh@iafrica.com>
Cc: Tom Kish <tomk@cmhcsys.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Mounting a DOS filesystem
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Brad Hendrickse:
 |> 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..

Not really.  The first 4 (s1-s4) are the primary partitions (FreeBSD calls 
them slices) that are stored in the disk MBR.  An extended partition picks 
up at s5.

If D: is a DOS primary partition, use wd#s1-4 (do a fdisk wd# in FreeBSD
to see what slot its in -- probably the first -- s1).  If its a
DOS extended partition (DOS fdisk will tell you this), use wd#s5.  If
the latter, don't forget to "cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV wd#s5".

And as I mentioned in my other reply, wd2 is your third disk, not your 
second.  If you meant your second, use wd1s# for the slice name instead.

Randall Hopper