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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 1995 21:17:25 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extended DOS partition support? 
Message-ID:  <199506130417.VAA05044@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jun 1995 21:21:59 PDT." <199506130421.VAA24763@ref.tfs.com> 

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>>> Poul-Henning Kamp said:
 > > I am curious where is this slice stuff documented.
 > > On my system, which I suped and "make world" on saturday.
 > > MAKEDEV does not create a /dev/wd0s5 so I created one. When I tried
 > > mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 , the system claims that the device is not 
 > > configured. Fine, so I went down the list  till /dev/wd0s1 which seems to 
     work
 > > on my system over here.
 > 
 > wd0s1 isn't an extended DOS partition.
 > 

# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos
rah# Jun 12 21:16:29 rah /kernel: wd0s1: type 0x6, start 35, end = 243879, 
size 243845 : OK
Jun 12 21:16:29 rah /kernel: wd0s1: type 0x6, start 35, end = 243879, size 
243845 : OK

rah# ls /dos
0setup.tmp      config.01       foo.bat         nackexp.zip     sw32.env
1280.reg        config.16s      foo.cfg         nbwin           talisman
801.205         config.8s       foo.s3          net.com         task.lst
a.bat           config.bak      football.2mb    oemsetup.inf    tasm

Amancio





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