Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:04:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mount the msdos primary partition? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417110336.1265Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980417102851.B13418@iconnect.co.ke>
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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 04:01:36PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > > > That might be the reason. The file system for the win95 is Fat32. Is it > > > possible to mount that? > > > > Not at this time. > > That's odd. I have a fat32 FS on my computer at home (win95B), and I can > mount it from FreeBSD-2.2.5. It complains about the clustersize, but this > is documented in the mount_msdos manpage. I mount it read-only to avoid > corruption, but otherwise, it works just fine. Are you **sure** it's fat32? Fat32 isn't supported unless someone snuck it in without telling me. I seem to remember a patch that would make fat32 work for 2.2.x, but I don't recall the location. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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