From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 7:26: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.144.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C5837B401 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 07:25:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.2r) with SMTP id KAA19063; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 10:25:46 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: "Christopher W. Aiken" , Kaban Subject: Re: problems with mounting FAT partitions... Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 10:30:22 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01020310302202.00548@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday February 03, 2001 08:27, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > ->Hi, everybody! > -> > ->Thanks for help with a previous problem (now i'm downloading > XFree86 ->4.0.2). But i'm downloading it under Windows'98 and storing > the files ->on the additional FAT (non FAT32) partition. > -> > ->My friend told me i can mount this partition in FreeBSD. He's gone > ->now and only you can help me... > -> > ->Please, tell me the way to do it... > -> > ->Thanks a lot! > > I believe the GENERIC kernel does NOT have ext2fs support. > Build a new kernel with the ext2fs support. Use GENERIC > and LINT for correct options. Uh, ext2fs is the linux filesystem and he doesn' need that. Yes if the FAT partition is a primary partition you can mount it under FreeBSD with the mount_msdos command. You have to know what slice (it's FreeBSD's name for the disk partition) the FAT is on. For example if the FAT is the first disk partition, you could mount it in FreeBSD with # mount_msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt If it's on the second disk partition it would be ad0s2. Also change the name of your harddrive to what is appropriate. Now if it is an extended FAT partition, it could be a lot more difficult. I think you can still mount those, but I don't know if it is the same. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message