Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:45:02 +0000 () From: Wicked Angel <wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dos Extended Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960116093744.7449A-100000@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu> In-Reply-To: <199601161414.BAA26050@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > > It actually says that the feature of mounting DOS extended partitions > isn't present in 2.1, but should be in 2.2. Actually, this feature > was introduced in 2.0.5. Actually^2, this feature will never be > supported. You mount logical drives, not the extended partitions that > contain the logical drives. > hehe, guess I misread ;) 0 > > Is it the second DOS partition and the first logical drive in the first > extended partition? That's the the first logical drive so it is slice 5, > i.e., sd0s5 if your disk is SCSI. > > mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s5 /somewhere > > Bruce > Well, my first dos partition is /dev/wd0s1, and teh extended partition is wd0s2(being the second partition) so I was trying to mount that! I just mounted my extended partiontion now ;) (as the fifth partition slice), it works great, I apprecaite it! Thanks again!!! Gary
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