Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:40:28 -0600 From: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@altech.ab.ca> To: "Mark Ovens" <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, "Adam Ford" <adam@attack.fordys.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Message-ID: <03f601bf1b43$bfc23d80$0307070a@shannon-s>
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-----Original Message----- From: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: October 20, 1999 3:22 PM >> root@attack>mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /windows > ^^^^^^^^^^ >Is it really wd0s2? Windows needs to be in the first partition so >I'd expect it to be wd0s1. I have a 12G drive and I couldn't get FreeBSD to work in the last half of the drive because it only saw 16383 cylinders rather than the 21xxx that there actually was. So I put FreeBSD in the first partition and Win95 in the second. I use a freeware partition manager to select which to boot from here at work but at home with the same setup I use fdisk to specify the active partition. Windows has no problem booting from the second partition as long as it's a primary partition and marked active. I don't know for sure whether this would work if the first partition was also a DOS partition but I think you'd have a hard time creating more than one DOS partition anyway. Shannonhelp
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