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Date:      Sun, 4 Jun 1995 08:27:14 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-)
Cc:        FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 install
Message-ID:  <199506040627.IAA21963@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950604021556.31379f-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> from "-Vince-" at Jun 4, 95 02:18:18 am

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> 
> On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, John Hay wrote:
> 
> > > 	I was wondering how does one mount a  dos partition under FreeBSD 
> > > -current since I noticed on wcarchive under  
> > > /pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/sbin, mount_msdos no longer exists since 
> > > I need to do a tarball of my setup to my dos partition before I do my 
> > > full install... Thanks...
> > > 
> > It just moved to src/sbin/i386.
> 
> 	Thanks, I just recompiled mount_msdos, mountd, and mount but 
> somehow when I tried:
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0e /usr/dos1
> msdos: mount: Invalid argument
> 
Nowadays with the slice code, you will probably need to use a slice like
/dev/wd0s1 (and not wd0e) if your dos partition is the first partition on 
the disk. The dos patition (slice) isn't part of the freebsd partitions 
anymore.

-- 
John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za



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