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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:12:40 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Michal Pomorski <pomor@fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Extendent Dos
Message-ID:  <3AC245B8.794969C9@urx.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103281836130.6298-100000@fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl>

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Michal Pomorski wrote:
> 
> I want to mount my extendent DOS partition (hard disk on IDE) ,how to do
> it?
> When i write  mount -t msdos /dev/ad4s2 /mnt/1 there is :
> msdos: /dev/ad4s: Invalid argument
> What to do?
> The primary DOS partition is ad4s1

The slices run primary (1-4), extended 5+. It doesn't matter which
partition is your extended partition, the logicals start at 5. Your
dos "d" drive would then be ad4s5. You make have to make the dev.

Kent

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