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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:14:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dan Boudro <dboudro@nmia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newbie - file mounting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980712021319.2422c-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35A7D78D.F1ACB153@nmia.com>

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On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Dan Boudro wrote:

> I've set up my machine so that FreeBSD is on one disk and Linux is on
> another.  I can mount my ext2fs (sysid 131) partitions just fine but
> unfortunately when I set up my Linux disk I used an Extended DOS
> partition (sysid 5) to hold several hdax x=5,6,7 slices.  I'm not having
> any luck mounting this partion(s).  Has anyone done this?  My big dos
> partition (sysid 6) also mounts ok.  Looking through the docs this may
> not be supported at all in FreeBSD. 

It is.  The extended partition's logical disks are mapped as extra slice
numbers, so if you want the first disk in the exteded partition it's
/dev/wd0s5, and so forth.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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