From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 0:29:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3D2814E90 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 11244 invoked from network); 21 Oct 1999 07:29:25 -0000 Received: from userae15.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.131.157) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 1999 07:29:25 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id IAA00524; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 08:29:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 08:29:03 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Tom Embt Cc: Shannon Wheeler , Adam Ford , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Message-ID: <19991021082903.A316@marder-1> References: <03f601bf1b43$bfc23d80$0307070a@shannon-s> <3.0.3.32.19991020221738.00b5f958@mail.embt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991020221738.00b5f958@mail.embt.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:17:38PM -0400, Tom Embt wrote: > >>> 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. > > Sorry, that's just not true. > It always used to be the case. Which version of Windows? Or are you referring to BIOSes that permit booting from partitions other than the first or smart boot managers? -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message