From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 07:29:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA20159 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 07:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccslinux.dlsu.edu.ph (humprey@linux1.dlsu.edu.ph [165.220.8.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA20112 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 07:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from humprey@localhost) by ccslinux.dlsu.edu.ph (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA05425; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 23:32:16 +0800 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 23:32:16 +0800 (GMT+0800) From: "Humprey C. Sy" To: Michael Shover cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mount_msdos In-Reply-To: <199602281807.MAA12485@lydia.bradley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > was suggested to me by someone else, but i can't seem to get it to > work. any help is appreciated. thanks. fd0 is the devname for your floppy drive. to mount a hd partition, it depends on what type of hd you have. in my case, I have an ide hd, in which its devname is wd0. my hd dos partition has a devname of wd0s1, to mount it into /root/dos, the command is: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /root/dos - Humprey -