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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!netaxs.com!news.fast.net!newsgate.ptd.net!news.ptd.net!not-for-mail From: "T.M. Sommers" <tms2@postoffice.ptd.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ***PLEASE HELP WITH MOUNTING HD*** Date: 11 May 1997 14:52:41 GMT Organization: None Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3375DD41.160D@postoffice.ptd.net> References: <33727176.1201@continet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: du14.cli.ptd.net NNTP-Posting-User: tms2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40752 Steve Burns wrote: > > I need help to mount a dos partition on a FreeBSD 2.2.1 system. I have a > Seagate HD, 550megs, split in half. I need to mount the dos partition so > that I can copy over a tar archive to put onto another hard drive. I > tried 'mount_msdos /dev/wd0a /dos' and it says bad block dev. Any help > would be greatly appreciated. I think you should use /dev/wd0s1 instead of /dev/wd0a (which I think is another name for the root partition).