From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 21 12:53:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.desktop.com (mail.desktop.com [166.90.128.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5094637B5A2 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:53:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clark@desktop.com) Received: from [192.168.1.42] (jumpgate.desktop.com [166.90.128.243]) by ns.desktop.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA49484; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:52:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clark@desktop.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: clark@mail.desktop.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <38B19F96.1171B089@jollem.com> References: <38B197A7.79930A37@jollem.com> <20000221122050.A48074@desktop.com> <38B19F96.1171B089@jollem.com> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:52:25 -0800 To: Ernst de Haan From: Clark Shishido Subject: Re: Kernel panic on `ls -la' on Mac-formatted /dev/fd0 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. If you're sure it's a dos formatted floppy, make sure it's not write-protected. One other trick is to delete the FINDER.DAT file which the Mac uses to cache file mappings from DOS dot-3 (.txt, .doc, .htm, etc) filetypes to Macintosh style type and creator codes (TEXT/R*ch, WDBN/MSWD, TEXT/MOSS, ...). --clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message