From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 16:20:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA08987 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA08982 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cicese.cicese.mx by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA04267 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:18:31 -0700 Received: from knuth (knuth.cicese.mx) by cicese.cicese.mx (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27172; Fri, 6 Sep 96 16:17:20 PDT Message-Id: <3230B0D9.81D@cicese.mx> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 16:16:41 -0700 From: Raymundo Vega Aguilar Organization: CICESE X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4c) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: MR BRIAN A NEAL Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting dos partitions References: <199609062154.RAA12506@mime2.prodigy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk MR BRIAN A NEAL wrote: > > I need help mounting my dos > partitions so I can install > other FreeBSD material. > > here's the command I'm using: > > mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s4 /dos_c ^^^^^^ do you have 4 partitions?? maybe it should read: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos_c or use instead mount_msdos, see this man for its use. > > but it doesn't work > > I have 2 IDE drives, I'm trying > to mount drive 0, it's the only > one with a dos partition. It's > a 500MB dos partition and > I have a 35meg freeBSD > partition that contains the > freeBSD root, the swap and > /usr are on the second drive. > > So I need to mount this 500meg > dos partition under freeBSD. > > Thanks in advance. > > ____ > s u p e r v i s o r > I take you where you want to go > I give you all you need to know > I drag you down, I use you up > 1 9 4 Saludddddd...os Raymundo.