From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 6 06:42:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA28560 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 06:42:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from poker2.northernnet.com (trf-11.dialup.northernnet.com [208.146.22.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA28547 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 06:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@poker2.northernnet.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by poker2.northernnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA00287; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:42:43 GMT Message-ID: <19971006084242.23585@poker2.northernnet.com> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:42:42 +0000 From: Electric Head To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: "Marc M. LaFerrera" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!??!?! Reply-To: poker2@northernnet.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew D. Fuller on Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:33:53PM -0500 X-Clinton-Header1: <=========== America Held Hostage ===========> X-Clinton-Header2: Day 1720 for the poor and the middle class. X-Clinton-Header3: Day 1739 for the rich and the dead. X-Clinton-Header4: 1202 days remaining in the Raw Deal. X-Clinton-Header5: <===========================================> X-Phone-Number: 218-681-8582 [x5415] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:33:53PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Marc M. LaFerrera wrote: > > > Hello, I am having alot of problems. Hopefully you will be able to help > > me. First, I can't mount my linux partition from FreeBSD. Everytime I do: > > mount -t ext2fs /dev/wd0s1 /mnt > > I get, : > > mount: ext2fs filesystem unsupported > > or something along those lines. I have the book "The complete FreeBSD" > > distributed by walnut creek cdrom. But it says nothing what so ever bout > > this. How do I add ext2fs support into my kernel? And, I know I shouldn't > > ask you this next question, but, you never know. I have the same problem > > with linux. I can't mount my BSD partition from linux. what would the fs > > type be? And how can I add support for the fs type? > I'm not the one to answer this, but I don't think you CAN mount a Linux > partition from FreeBSD, or vice versa. The FreeBSD partition type would > be either ufs or 4.2BSD, though. Yes U CAN!!! vmount does this through a ported version of Linux's fs code. It feeds freebsd the VFS style info through an NFS port. Basically, you run a proggie, it deamonizes, and exports something to freebsd that it can understand. > Is it parallel or is it SCSI; they're 2 different interfaces. I'd guess > you mean SCSI, you I think you'd just reference it like any other SCSI > drive; as sd(whatever number). It is p port, and yes, it is supported. Check the FAQ or handbook, or maybe this question has been answered. Shawn