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From: John Lind <john@starfire.mn.org>
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Subject: Mounting an MS-DOS harddrive on FreeBSD 2.0 (CD)
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 18:09:34 -0500 (CDT)
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I have a customer with a newly-installed FreeBSD system that would
like to be able to mount a device containing an MS-DOS formatted
filesystem (removable media).  I have searched the FAQ's for "MSDOS"
and read everything that I found, but I couldn't see any information
on how to do this.  FreeBSD fdisk recognizes and interprets the
fdisk table correctly, but no partitions other than D are configured
(due to the lack of a FreeBSD disklabel, presumably).  I thought
that something in FreeBSD "faked" a disk label for a drive with
only MS-DOS file structures on it, but I am certainly not observing
that behavior here.  I am about to try to install a FreeBSD disklabel
on the disk, since it was freshly-formatted and has nothing to loose.

Also, while I have you on the line, how does one issue a low-level format
to SCSI devices?  That won't help for this particular application, of
course, since they need a full MS-DOS filesystem out there, but for
other purposes it would be nice to know...

		   John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services
E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG		USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN  55417