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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dos primary partition on disk 2
Date: 13 Mar 1996 23:56:30 GMT
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englehar@src.honeywell.com (Matt Englehart) writes:
> Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5.  I recently added a second hard drive.
> I created a DOS primary partition on the second disk.  Can anyone please 
> help me by telling me how I can mount this partition from within FreeBSD?

mount -t msdos /dev/rsd1s1 /dos/d

..assuming your disk is SCSI, and the primary DOS partition allocates
the very first slot in the fdisk table.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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