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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:35:38 -1000
From:      Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>
To:        Clark Shishido <clark@desktop.com>
Cc:        Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel panic on `ls -la' on Mac-formatted /dev/fd0
Message-ID:  <20000222093538.E14994@lava.net>
In-Reply-To: <v04220802b4d751f34b79@[192.168.1.42]>
References:  <38B197A7.79930A37@jollem.com> <20000221122050.A48074@desktop.com> <38B19F96.1171B089@jollem.com> <v04220802b4d751f34b79@[192.168.1.42]>

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On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:52:25PM -0800, Clark Shishido wrote:
> At 21:27 +0100 2000.02.21, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> >The disk is DOS-formatted by a Mac, I believe. I just issue:
> >
> >   mount /mnt/floppy
> >
> >and my /etc/fstab specifies that /mnt/floppy is /dev/fd0, type msdos
> >
> 
> if it's really a Mac floppy with a HFS partition, you'll want to use
> hfsutils to mount the floppy, check /usr/ports/emulators/hfsutils. I
> haven't used them in a while so I can't quote the command for you.

Shouldn't it be considered a bug that the kernel panics, regardless of
what's the right command to mount the floppy?

  -- Clifton

-- 
 Clifton Royston  --  LavaNet Systems Architect --  cliftonr@lava.net
      The named which can be named is not the Eternal named.



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