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Subject: Re: copying from dos
In-Reply-To: <329ED4A3.2C71@unixg.ubc.ca> from Stephen Cawood at "Nov 29, 96 04:18:43 am"
To: cawood@unixg.ubc.ca (Stephen Cawood)
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:23:01 +0200 (SAT)
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Stephen Cawood wrote:

> Could someone help me with this frustrating problem?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your time.
> 
> I have searched the archives and have found no mention of this problem.
> 
> OK, when I try to copy files from my dos partition to my Bsd partition,
> I get an error message, the machine reboots and I can no longer boot
> Bsd.
> 
> It doesn't happen with every file but it has happened every time I have
> tried to cp a few files over to bsd.
> 
> The error message is:
> 
> mode-0120025, inum=791, fs=/
> panic=ffs_valloc: dup alloc
> synching disks...14 14 2 done
> Automatic reboot on 15 seconds
> 
> And then when I try to boot it says:
> 
> Error: c:158870 > 1023 (Bios Limit)
> 
> 
> It seems that the partitions are not mouted properly but I have tried it
> both manually and through the boot manager.
> 
> The files that I am trying to copy over are the new version of XF86Free
> which I need to use my particular Mach64.
> 
> I would appreciate any help that anyone could offer.

This is a bug that's probably just been fixed in 3.0-current.  Unless
you are tracking -current, you need to either

   * Make your DOS partition smaller, so your cluster size doesn't
     exceed 16K.  (To find out the cluster size, run DOS `chkdsk'
     and look for "allocation units".)

or

   * Use some some utility to copy the files.  (`Mtools' in the
     ports collection supports hard disks, but I don't know if
     this works on FreeBSD.  Otherwise, I've got something
     lying around somewhere you could probably use.)

-- 
Robert Nordier