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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.ess.harris.com!usenet From: Gregory James Cusick <gcusick@harris.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mount drive problems -- Newbie Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 01:13:03 -0500 Organization: Harris Corporation Lines: 34 Message-ID: <33279AEF.4C5B@harris.com> References: <01bc2e8b$f45b7ea0$642b74cf@default> <5g7h86$iqv$1@news1.sympatico.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.hisd.harris.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) To: Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36954 Gardner Buchanan wrote: > > In article <01bc2e8b$f45b7ea0$642b74cf@default>, > "Kathleen Ramsey" <kramsey@worldnet.att.net> writes: > > I'm running 2.1.5 on a P5 200 MHz. I have an IDE and I cannot mount an > > extended DOS area a floppy drive or my ATAPI Toshiba 12X CD. > > Extended DOS partitions don't work. A primary DOS partition may > be mounted if it is <500 Megabytes. I still wouldn't suggest it > unless you REALLY need to. NOTE: larger ones will APPEAR to mount, > but will trash your disk. Yes, extended DOS partitions do work. Dude must be smokin' crack. Actually, to be more precise, you can mount each logical drive that exists in an extended dos partition. The first one in s5 and they go up from there. Here is how to mount the first one for an ide type drive (wd): temp fix: mkdir /dos_d cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wd0s5 mount -t msdos wd0s5 /dos_d perm fix: do above once and then edit /etc/fstab to add the appropriate entry (let me know if you don't know what to put in there) The fstab entry will automatically mount the logical DOS drives upon booting so you don't have to do it manually again. This assumes first logical drive is on drive 0. Good luck! Greg