From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 20 11:47:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09675 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 11:47:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (196-31-98-221.iafrica.com [196.31.98.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09339 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 11:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@iafrica.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id VAA03642; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:45:40 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199803201945.VAA03642@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: newmsdosfs anyone ? In-Reply-To: <199803201710.SAA05191@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Mar 20, 98 06:10:37 pm" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:45:28 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > The latest mtools works pretty well for large disks. > > 3.8 or later ? I used a 3.9 pre-release to test standalone FAT32 support I was doing for sysinstall. Mtools did work correctly for FAT32 partitions > 0xffff clusters, but I didn't really look at the whole package. [ ... ] > I have patches (for mtools 3.0) to support HDs (but only up to 512MB) > and make them bootable in DOS or Windows95 (you need a DOS/Win > licence, and you need to grab the init files and boot sector and put > them into /usr/local/lib/mtools... > > Would you be interested to integrate that as well ? If you're likely to use it, I guess it should be added. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message