Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:39:00 -0400 From: Sergei Shayevich <serega@bigfoot.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DOS partition Assignments Message-ID: <35368884.82B1E1D@bigfoot.com>
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Hi there. I've made somewhat of a mess on my machine and I am hoping somebody could help me straighten it out. Here's the scoop: I have 3 physical hard drives + CD-Rom (all IDE) on a P-100 with 128Mb of RAM. 1st physical device (850Mb in size) is partitioned in two. 50Mb DOS partition (drive "C") and the rest is dedicated to FreeBSD 2.1.0 2nd physical device (1.2G in size), is also partitioned in two. Drives "D" and "F". Win95 (FAT 16) resides on drive "D", and as far as "F" goes, it's a 160Mb DOS partition that was created for FreeBSD install from there. 3rd physical device (2G in size), drive "E" as you may have guessed has WinNT4.0 on it. (FAT16) The latter was added to the machine last, and win95 along with NT chooses this strange drive letter assignments which I learned to live with. Now, here's the problem: before the 2Gig drive was added, the current "F" drive used to be "E". So in accordance with that the /etc/fstab file on my machine remained unchanged and looks like this /dev/wd0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s1 /dos/C msdos rw 0 0 /dev/wd1s2 /dos/E msdos rw 0 0 /dev/wd0s2e /usr ufs rw 1 1 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 I would like to have the drives mounted with the consistancy to that of Win95 and NT. Displaying partition "D" I am not worried about at this point, but I would like to have /dos/E become /dos/F. I've learned that simply changing the letter in the fstab file won't work. On boot the machine panics, runs fsck or asks me to run it, and throws me into single user mode. I thought that even if I were to let them be swapped but could see the 2Gig drive, it would be better than not having the 2Gig drive visible at all. So I tried mounting it as "F", but doing "mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s1 /dos/F" comes back with the message of device not being configured. What am I doing wrong and what can I try to fix it? Any help would be appriciated. Sergei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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