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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 1996 23:32:16 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From:      "Humprey C. Sy" <humprey@linux1.dlsu.edu.ph>
To:        Michael Shover <mikefish@lydia.bradley.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mount_msdos
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.960301232922.5384B-100000@ccslinux.dlsu.edu.ph>
In-Reply-To: <199602281807.MAA12485@lydia.bradley.edu>

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On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Michael Shover wrote:

> i am trying to mount a 40 MB dos partition that is physically on 
> the same hard drive as my copy of freebsd.  i have tried the mount_msdos
> command many times, but i can not seem to get it right.  for the 
> device, i am using fd0 and for the mount directory /root/dos.  this 
> was suggested to me by someone else, but i can't seem to get it to 
> work.  any help is appreciated.  thanks.

fd0 is the devname for your floppy drive.  to mount a hd partition, it 
depends on what type of hd you have.  in my case, I have an ide hd, in 
which its devname is wd0.  my hd dos partition has a devname of wd0s1, to 
mount it into /root/dos, the command is:

	mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /root/dos

- Humprey -





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