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From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Please help.
To: hans@flash.net (Hans Glitsch)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 16:08:15 +0200 (SAT)
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Hans Glitsch wrote:

> I have completed the instalation of FreeBSD on my system and it seems to
> work OK, but I discovered that I need to rebuild my kernel because I am
> using a PS/2 mouse :-(. Which means that I need to get the package that
> contains the kernel sources. Am I right? or am I going in the wrong direction?

You'd probably want to rebuild the kernel, anyway, to strip out stuff you
don't need.  Look for files with the pattern 'ssys.a[a-z]'.  These can
be unpacked in '/usr/src' with a command such as

   cat ssys.* | tar xzvf -

> 
> I also need to redo the dos partition that I made with fips.exe because it's
> too small for the BSD package that I need. How do I delete a partition made
> with fips.exe?

You could use the DOS 'fdisk' utility, which has a 'delete partition'
option.

> 
> Also, how do I transfer files back and forth between the dos and FreeBSD
> file system?

Depending on how you installed, you may have the DOS C: partition
auto-mounted.  Eg. (in '/etc/fstab'):

   /dev/wd0s1   /dos   msdos   ro   0   0

If so, your DOS files will be accessible from FreeBSD (by way of '/dos',
in this case.)

Because of problems in the present FreeBSD msdosfs code, it is usually
safer to access fixed disk DOS partitions read-only.  To transfer files
to DOS, you could change the 'ro' to 'rw' in '/etc/fstab'; or you could
make use of floppies.

To access floppies, you can use the msdosfs (eg.):

   mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

or use the 'mtools-2.0.7' package available in the ports collection.

(Unless you enjoy unnecessary suffering, stay away from 'mtools-2.5.4',
etc.  This is rewritten code which isn't ready yet.)

-- 
Robert Nordier