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From: jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw (Wei-Jou Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mount DOS partition, how to?
Date: 12 Aug 1995 02:28:51 GMT
Organization: Liquid Crystal Lab, NCTU, Taiwan, ROC
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Panaya R. (u3525850@au1.au.ac.th) wrote:
: hi..
: 	I have whole first drive format to dos, and whole second drive is
: freebsd... I want to mount dos partition ... I tried..

: 	mount -t msdos /dev/wd0 /mnt
: 	mount -t msdos /dev/wd0a /mnt
: 	mount_msdos /dev/wd0 /mnt
: 	mount_msdos /dev/wd0a /mnt

: 	but none is works.. it reports 'invalid argument'

: 	but when I tried on floppy disk..
: 	
: 	mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

: 	it works...
: 					Any hint?
: 					Thanks much
	If your msdos is in disk c on dos, try
		mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
	If the disk have more partion, try
		mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /mnt ....
	try more, it should work.

--Jou