Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:56:56 -0600 From: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@altech.ab.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Message-ID: <05bc01bf1bdd$d21e80c0$0307070a@shannon-s>
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Well I keep seeing messages here asking people to set their clients to wrap mail at 70 (or so) characters... Could I also ask people to trim the excess addresses from the From: field when replying? I get enough mail from this list already - I don't need two or more of each thread I'm involved in. thanks. It was actually never true that Windows needed to be in the first partition. You may be thinking of MS-DOS? I believe you can only install DOS in the Active primary partition (there should only be one active partition). This isn't necessarily the first primary partition. Some versions of DOS may have an additional restriction of only being able to install in the first primary partition. I don't have enough installable DOS versions, enough time, nor enough interest to test this. DOS can definately boot from other than the first primary partition though. As long as it's an Active partition. Are you implying that some BIOSes always boot from the first partition rather than the Active partition? Shannon -----Original Message----- From: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: October 21, 1999 1:37 AM >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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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