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From: viper@buri.kuentos.guam.net (The Viper)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,list.freebsd-hackers,muc.lists.freebsd.hackers,muc.lists.freebsd.hardware,muc.lists.freebsd.questions
Subject: Re: mounting extended DOS partitions
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,list.freebsd-hackers,muc.lists.freebsd.hackers,muc.lists.freebsd.hardware,muc.lists.freebsd.questions
Date: 4 Sep 1996 01:16:33 GMT
Organization: Kuentos Communications Inc.
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Daniel Keller (dkeller@psln.com) wrote:
: I need help mounting an extended DOS partition. I have 2 Hard drives, wd1
: is a 200MB drive that is running FreeBSD 2.1.5, wd0 is a 1GB drive running
: windows 95 and is partitiond in to 200MB drives C-G. I can mount the C
: drive by using: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos/c. But how can I mount the
: other partitions
: (d-g)?
I have the same problem with Win95. BSD will cheerfully mount my primary
DOS partition (c:) but it only laughs at me when I try to mount d:, which
is in the extended partition on my disk. BTW, BSD, which is ever-so-much
smarter than DOS, lets me use the last 3-4 megabytes on my HD that DOS
so wantonly discarded. So I have a pretty wierd looking drive:
wd0s1 (c:)
wd0s2 (FreeBSD)
wd0s3 (d: [extended partition])
wd0s4 (FreeBSD, using what DOS didn't want, about 4 megs, mounted
in /usr/foo)
But when BootEasy appears, it says this:
F1 dos
F2 BSD
F4 BSD
despite the fact that wd0s4 is set non-bootable. Can I edit BootEasy to
not display that? Or is there another boot manager that I can use instead?
Just an aesthetic thing anyway.
Praise be to the Rev. Bob!
Many thanks to the helpful,
Steve Zeck
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