From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 15 17:16:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474CB15159 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:16:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drew@plutotech.com) Received: from dune.plutotech.com (drew@dune.plutotech.com [206.168.67.170]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA67070; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:14:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from drew@plutotech.com) From: Drew Eckhardt Received: (from drew@localhost) by dune.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id SAA02893; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:14:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from drew@mail.plutotech.com) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:14:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199904160014.SAA02893@dune.plutotech.com> To: Mongoos411@aol.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cant mount hard drive X-Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >hey guys I cant mount a hard drive(windows 95, which has my x-windows >install). >I type: mount_msdos /dev/wd0 /mnt >it says "bad bpb" or "device not configured" and then usually displays the >synopsis if the command. /dev/wd0 is the entire hard drive : partition table followed by each of the partitions in only. You want your DOS partition. As root fdisk wd0 will give you a list of partitions. One line will give you something like The data for partition 2 is: sysid 12,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA) Take the partition number, and mount it. In this case, mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /mnt would do the trick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message