Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:04:04 -0700 (PDT) From: X Philius <xphilius@yahoo.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to mount an extended DOS partition Message-ID: <20011017170404.18122.qmail@web11803.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011017113208.D91685@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan, Excellent! That did it. Thanks much. Jason --- Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 17), X Philius said: > > I hasve a tri-boot machine (Win98, Win2K and FreeBSD), and I would > > like to use the same extended partition for files, sharing it between > > all three OS's. I have successfully mounted a primary DOS partition > > using the mount_msdos command, but I get an error when I try to mount > > an extended partition (mount_msdos: /dev/ad2s2: Invalid argument). Is > > there another command I can use, or is this not possible? Thanks in > > advance. > > You don't want to mount the extended partition itself; you want to > mount the logical partition inside it. They start at s5, so try > /dev/ad2s5 first. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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