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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:21:08 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting Windows 95 partitions
Message-ID:  <19980414122108.33861@ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <3533276B.2AEA5AC@nmrc.ucc.ie>; from Jean-Paul Beconne on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 10:07:55AM %2B0100
References:  <3533276B.2AEA5AC@nmrc.ucc.ie>

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On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 10:07:55AM +0100, Jean-Paul Beconne wrote:
> I tried to mount Windows 95 partition and failed. I proceeded as
> following :
> the hard disk has the following structure :
> partition	OS			sysid		size
> wd0s1		Windows 95 (FAT 32)	11		936 Mo
> wd0s2		FreeBSD			165 (a5)	1 Go
> wd0s3		Windows 95 (FAT 16)	15 (5)		4 Mo
> wd0s4		??			160		80 Mo
> 
> I tried first :
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos
> and got a crash. I realised after that BSD doesn't support FAT 32
> then I tried
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s3 /dos
> and got the following message : "mount: msdos: wd0s3 invalid device"

You should use /dev/wd0s3c to mount ms-dos partition.

> I went back to Win 95 and installed the filesystem (Win 95) on this 
> partition but I got the same message when I tried again to mount it.
> Why can I not mount this partition ?
> What is the purpose of wd0s4 (unknown OS) which uses 80 Mo ?

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