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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting MS_DOS Partitions and CD-rom Drives
Date: 2 Jun 1996 12:23:37 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <31B10A0D.1679@occ-uky.campus.mci.net>,
SpEeD <speed@occ-uky.campus.mci.net> wrote:
>I can't figure out how to get my DOS partiton to mount so that i can
read and write to it.
It depends on what type of drive it is, how many drives you have and
which "slice" (BSD jargon for a DOS "partition") it is.
mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
is how you would do it for an IDE/EIDE disk, which is the first hard
disk in your system, which has a DOS partition on slice 1. ("Slice" is
BSD jargon for what DOS calls a "partition").
If it's SCSI instead of IDE, the 'w' should be a 's'. If it's not the
first drive, the '0' should be the number (second disk is '1', third
is '2', etc).
>Also How do I mount my IDE cd-rom drive?
mount /cdrom
>please reply in e-mail..
Cc'd as requested
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