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From: Mohamad Hannaoui <mohamad@times>
Subject: Re: Mount a DOS drive 
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In article <D82y3q.9x1@tfs.com>, <mohamad@tfs.com> writes:
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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> From: mohamad@tfs.com (Mohamad Hannaoui)
> Subject: Mount a DOS drive
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> Keywords: mount dos
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> Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 00:45:26 GMT
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 2.0.  My system has 2 DOS drives connected
> to an IDE adaptor and 1 SCSI drive with the FreeBSD.
> When I want to boot from DOS I put the IDE drives in the setup, and
> when I want to boot from UNIX I remove them.  My DOS drives are
> recognized when I boot from UNIX.  
> The question is, am I suppose to be able to mount those two
> DOS drives? and if so, how is it done?
> 
> I tried mount_msdos, but that didn't work.  I am able to dd from 
> the drives if that tells anything.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> mohamad H. <mohamad@tfs.com>
> 
Ok, I'll answer my own question.  I was trying to mount the wrong 
partition.  I found the correct partition by using disklabel wd0.  The 
partition to mount is the one with MSDOS next to it.