From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 9:15:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.uka.co.uk (ns.uka.co.uk [212.67.203.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A25214A0B for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@fordys.net) Received: from mailgate.fordys.net ([195.188.250.233]) by www.uka.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05108 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:05:19 +0100 Received: from attack.fordys.net ([192.168.1.3]) by mailgate.fordys.net with smtp (Exim 3.02 #4) id 11dyNz-0000Km-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:14:47 +0100 Received: from adam by attack.fordys.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11dzJy-0000Dh-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:14:42 +0000 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:14:42 +0000 From: Adam Ford To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Message-ID: <19991020171442.A838@attack.fordys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I'm not subscribed to this list anymore, so would appreciate a CC to me of any responses. I've installed FreeBSD on one patition on my laptop (just one internal drive) I fdisk'ed it from within freebsd, and created a 500MB DOS partition there (enough for windows 95) - which all works jolly well and good, the boot loader asks me which I want, and both boot hunky-dory with no problems! The problem comes when I try and mount the MSDOS partition from unix, I get a silly error message, to which I could find none in the archives of these lists at http://www.uk.freebsd.org/search The problem I get is documented below: root@attack>mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /windows msdos: vfsload (msdos): No such file or directory Yes the windows directory does exist... There was a similar problem in the archive regarding ex2fs, which said support wasn't installed in the kernel, but I do have support for MSDOSFS... Any help would be muchly appreciated... I'm running FreeBSD3.3-RELEASE - just installed yesterday, and spent all night scratching my head over this! Hopefully someone could give me a hand! - I'd be vewwy grateful! :) Thanks for listening, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Adam Ford adam@fordys.net http://www.fordys.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message