Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:17:38 -0400 From: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> To: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@altech.ab.ca>, "Mark Ovens" <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, "Adam Ford" <adam@attack.fordys.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19991020221738.00b5f958@mail.embt.com> In-Reply-To: <03f601bf1b43$bfc23d80$0307070a@shannon-s>
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>>> 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. >I have a 12G drive and I couldn't get FreeBSD to work in the last half of the drive because it only saw 16383 cylinders rather than the 21xxx that there actually was. So I put FreeBSD in the first partition and Win95 in the second. Dandy. >I use a freeware partition manager to select which to boot from here at work but at home with the same setup I use fdisk to specify the active partition. Windows has no problem booting from the second partition as long as it's a primary partition and marked active. If it works.. I'd use a boot manager, it's easier. >I don't know for sure whether this would work if the first partition was also a DOS partition but I think you'd have a hard time creating more than one DOS partition anyway. > What's wrong with lots of DOS partitions? To the original poster with the problem: does /dev/wd0s2 exist? does /modules/msdos.ko exist? what does 'fdisk wd0' output? Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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