From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 17 11:05:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13865 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:05:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13847 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:04:56 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01406; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:04:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mount the msdos primary partition? In-Reply-To: <19980417102851.B13418@iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 04:01:36PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > > > That might be the reason. The file system for the win95 is Fat32. Is it > > > possible to mount that? > > > > Not at this time. > > That's odd. I have a fat32 FS on my computer at home (win95B), and I can > mount it from FreeBSD-2.2.5. It complains about the clustersize, but this > is documented in the mount_msdos manpage. I mount it read-only to avoid > corruption, but otherwise, it works just fine. Are you **sure** it's fat32? Fat32 isn't supported unless someone snuck it in without telling me. I seem to remember a patch that would make fat32 work for 2.2.x, but I don't recall the location. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message