Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 16:08:15 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: hans@flash.net (Hans Glitsch) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Please help. Message-ID: <199605131408.QAA00579@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960513063700.00674fa8@flash.net> from "Hans Glitsch" at May 13, 96 01:37:00 am
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Hans Glitsch wrote: > I have completed the instalation of FreeBSD on my system and it seems to > work OK, but I discovered that I need to rebuild my kernel because I am > using a PS/2 mouse :-(. Which means that I need to get the package that > contains the kernel sources. Am I right? or am I going in the wrong direction? You'd probably want to rebuild the kernel, anyway, to strip out stuff you don't need. Look for files with the pattern 'ssys.a[a-z]'. These can be unpacked in '/usr/src' with a command such as cat ssys.* | tar xzvf - > > I also need to redo the dos partition that I made with fips.exe because it's > too small for the BSD package that I need. How do I delete a partition made > with fips.exe? You could use the DOS 'fdisk' utility, which has a 'delete partition' option. > > Also, how do I transfer files back and forth between the dos and FreeBSD > file system? Depending on how you installed, you may have the DOS C: partition auto-mounted. Eg. (in '/etc/fstab'): /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos ro 0 0 If so, your DOS files will be accessible from FreeBSD (by way of '/dos', in this case.) Because of problems in the present FreeBSD msdosfs code, it is usually safer to access fixed disk DOS partitions read-only. To transfer files to DOS, you could change the 'ro' to 'rw' in '/etc/fstab'; or you could make use of floppies. To access floppies, you can use the msdosfs (eg.): mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt or use the 'mtools-2.0.7' package available in the ports collection. (Unless you enjoy unnecessary suffering, stay away from 'mtools-2.5.4', etc. This is rewritten code which isn't ready yet.) -- Robert Nordier
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