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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,
>
> --
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>   Adam Ford adam@fordys.net http://www.fordys.net
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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