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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!nwnexus!nwnexus!deanstoy!dean From: dean@deanstoy.wa.com (Dean M. Phillips) Subject: Re: Mounting Dos Hard Drive under BSD Organization: None whatsoever! Message-ID: <D538D2.KH@deanstoy.wa.com> References: <3jgjo0$h36@kahu.mrtc.maui.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 20:46:13 GMT Lines: 40 In article <3jgjo0$h36@kahu.mrtc.maui.com> Richard Puga <puga@maui.com> writes: >I have an Intel p-90 with 4 ide Hard drives.. I am running BSD on wd2 and use >wd3 for storage.. I want to be able to mount my dos drives (wd0 wd1) under bsd >but I am halving a problem with disklabel.. can anyone help me?? You need to put a disklabel on the drive (after the MBR) so that FreeBSD can find the partition. Probably the easiest way to do this is to first create a protofile from your BSD drive and then hack it up for your dos drives: disklabel -r wd2 > protofile emacs protofile Adjust cylinders, etc. Create a single "a" partition (type MSDOS) which starts one track from the begining of the disk and covers the rest of it. Also create a "d" partition (type unused) which covers the entire disk. disklabel -R -r wd0 protofile emacs protofile [adjust for wd1] disklabel -R -r wd1 protofile then you should be able to say: mount -r -t msdos /dev/wd0a /dos0 mount -r -t msdos /dev/wd1a /dos1 (or whatever mount points you have created.) I mount my dos partion read only because writing a dos partion with FreeBSD is still flakey. >I need to know how do use disklabel and how to use mount.... Say "man disklabel" and "man mount" for starters. To automatically mount my MSDOS partition I have the following entry in my /etc/fstab file: /dev/wd0h /dos msdos ro 1 1 _________________________________________________________________________ Dean M. Phillips PGP mail encouraged dean@deanstoy.wa.com Office: 206-294-1024 Lab: 206-662-0286 Home: 206-488-8282 8 years experience with hardware & software design of real-time, embedded and simulation systems. Available soon for contract/permanent work!