Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 23:58:06 -0400 (EDT) From: media@mail1.nai.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: mounting primary DOS partition Message-ID: <v03130304b357c17c5716@[209.150.34.161]> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990506132127.00a44430@mail> References: <37313E88.6E5636B@uk.radan.com> <v03130305b3528879a3dc@[209.150.39.65]> <v03130300b35651938ebf@[209.150.35.229]>
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At 1:21 PM -0700 5/6/99, charon@freethought.org wrote: >At 08:02 AM 5/6/99 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >>media@mail1.nai.net wrote: >>> >>> At 10:57 PM -0700 5/2/99, charon@freethought.org wrote: >>> >>Since I have 3.1-RELEASE more or less up and running, which command will >>> >>prove I can access my DOS partition from FreeBSD?? >>> > >>> >cd /mnt >>> >mkdir DOS >>> >mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 DOS >>> >cd DOS >>> >>> I tried that. When I typed "mkdir DOS" it said "Permission Denied," so I >>> looged back on as root. After that, when I typed in "mount -t msdos >>> /dev/wd0s1 DOS" it responded: >>> >>> msdos: /dev/wd0s1: Device busy >>> >> >>That sounds like it's already mounted. >> >>Also I thought you had to absolute path the mountpoint (not 100% sure >>about this though): >> >>mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt/DOS Apparently I mounted it when I installed FreeBSD. >No, the path doesn't have to be absolute (works the same way as other >commands - that's why I put in 'cd /mnt'). > >The drive is mounted, though. Do a 'df' to see the drives already mounted. > For example, when I type 'df' I see '/' as being device '/dev/wd0s3a' >which is what I'd expect, since I have FreeBSD installed on the third >partition on my drive. If I then type 'mount /dev/wd0s3a whatever', it >gives me a 'Device busy' error because root is already mounted. Thanx!! The df command showed that dev/wd0s1 is mounted on /1, so that's where the mount point I chose during install went :) I tried: mv -i 1 DOS and got: mv: cannot rename a mount point Even thought there are man pages for rename, trying to use rename says "Command not found." So I'm stuck calling it /1 for now. Anyway, I still can't seem to install X11R6 or the src files from my DOS partition. When I stand/install from root and go to load them I get: "Error mounting /dev/wd0s1 on /dist: device busy (16)" I tried to rtfm before I started this, but the sections on IDE and Slices in the handbook are unavailable (note the asterisks) in the FreeBSD handbook on the web, and I couldn't find anything in the FAQ. Any ideas?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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