Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:14:56 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Adam Ford <adam@attack.fordys.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Message-ID: <19991020221456.B377@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19991020171442.A838@attack.fordys.net> References: <19991020171442.A838@attack.fordys.net>
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On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:14:42PM +0000, Adam Ford wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm not subscribed to this list anymore, so would appreciate a CC to > me of any responses. > > I've installed FreeBSD on one patition on my laptop (just one > internal drive) I fdisk'ed it from within freebsd, and created a > 500MB DOS partition there (enough for windows 95) - which all works > jolly well and good, the boot loader asks me which I want, and both > boot hunky-dory with no problems! > > The problem comes when I try and mount the MSDOS partition from > unix, I get a silly error message, to which I could find none in the > archives of these lists at http://www.uk.freebsd.org/search > > The problem I get is documented below: > > root@attack>mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /windows ^^^^^^^^^^ Is it really wd0s2? Windows needs to be in the first partition so I'd expect it to be wd0s1. > msdos: vfsload (msdos): No such file or directory > > Yes the windows directory does exist... > > There was a similar problem in the archive regarding ex2fs, which > said support wasn't installed in the kernel, but I do have support > for MSDOSFS... > > Any help would be muchly appreciated... I'm running > FreeBSD3.3-RELEASE - just installed yesterday, and spent all night > scratching my head over this! > > Hopefully someone could give me a hand! - I'd be vewwy grateful! :) > > Thanks for listening, > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Adam Ford adam@fordys.net http://www.fordys.net > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe > freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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