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Update section on mounting DOS extended partitions.

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Document the fact that we're now working on BSDI's dos emulator
and point people at the new freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing
list.
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<title>Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X
<author>The FreeBSD FAQ Team, <tt/FAQ@FreeBSD.ORG/
<date> $Id: freebsd-faq.sgml,v 1.39 1996/03/24 22:24:10 joerg Exp $
<date> $Id: freebsd-faq.sgml,v 1.40 1996/04/07 17:23:34 roberto Exp $
<abstract>
This is the FAQ for FreeBSD systems version 2.X All entries are
assumed to be relevant to FreeBSD 2.0.5+, unless otherwise noted.
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<heading>Can I mount my DOS extended partitions?</heading>
<p>
This feature isn't in FreeBSD 2.1 but should be in 2.2. We've
laid all the groundwork for making this happen, now we just need
to do the last 1% of the work involved.
Yes. DOS extended partitions are mapped in at the end of
the other ``slices'' in FreeBSD, e.g. your D: drive might
be /dev/sd0s5, your E: drive /dev/sd0s6, and so on. This
example assumes, of course, that your extended partition is
on SCSI drive 0. For IDE drives, substitute ``wd'' for ``sd''
and so on. You otherwise mount them exactly like you would
mount any other DOS drive, e.g.:
<p>
mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s5 /dos_d
<sect1>
<heading>Can I run DOS binaries under FreeBSD?</heading>
<p>
Not yet! We'd like to add support for this someday, but are
still lacking anyone to actually do the work. Ongoing work with
Linux's <tt/DOSEMU/ utility may bring this much closer to being a
reality sometime soon. Send mail to
<url url="mailto:hackers@freebsd.org"
name="The FreeBSD hackers list">
Not yet, though BSDI has just donated their <tt/rundos/ DOS emulation
subsystem which we're now working on integrating and enhancing.
Send mail to
<url url="mailto:emulation@freebsd.org"
name="The FreeBSD emulation discussion list">
if you're interested in joining this effort!
However, there is a neat utility called ``<tt/pcemu/'' in the
For now, there is a neat utility called ``<tt/pcemu/'' in the
ports collection which emulates an 8088 and enough BIOS services
to run DOS text mode applications. It requires the X Window
System (provided as XFree86 3.1.2).