Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:50:48 -0500 From: Alan Weber <aauu@ccms.net> To: David Vondrasek <david@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting MS DOS partitions Message-ID: <35F47157.FC8220E3@ccms.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809071729060.231-100000@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org>
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David Vondrasek wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Alan Weber wrote: > > > Oliver Thuns wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I tried to install FreeBSD, but the setup program does not recognize my > > > partitions correctly. > > > I have 4 partitions: > > > > > > 400 MB FAT (Win 95) > > > 1000 MB NTFS (NT 4.0) > > > 700 MB FAT (for FreeBSD) > > > 2000 MB FAT (Data) > > > > > > FreeBSD setup recognizes the first FAT partition and only one extended > > > partition with 3700 MB. The BIOS does not support a mapping for large > > > harddisks, but this should be no problem with FreeBSD (NT and Linux > > > recognize these partitions, Win95 doesn't). > > > > FreeBSD is seeing your partitions correctly. You have two partitions, a > > 400 meg FAT and a 3700meg Extended partition. Your NTFS, 700meg and > > 2000meg partitions are logical partitions contained in the extended > > partition. FreeBSD needs a primary partition to be installed. You can fix > > this situation with Partition Magic ($) by moving up the 2000meg partition > > to the end of the NTFS partion and truncating the extended partition at > > 3000meg. FreeBSD then can be installed in the remaining 700 meg space. > > FreeBSD does not use the DOS FAT file system for itself. After FreeBSD is > > installed in the 700 meg partition you can access the DOS FAT partitions > > when FreeBSD is running. If you have a way to backup the partitions or > > dont have much data I would make a 2000 meg Win 95 FAT 32, a 1000 meg NTFS > > and a 1100 meg FreeBSD. I would boot each OS in their respective > > partition. You can get drivers for Win 95 & NT that will read the NTFS and > > FAT 32 partitions at www.sysinternals.com. FreeBSD Stable can access the > > FAT32 partition. If your committed to keeping the extended partition as > > is, you may be able to install Linux for a unix-like os. > > Along the same note: > I have FreeBSD set as my second partition and FAT16 on the 1st, How can I > mount the MSDOS/FAT16 partion ? And will I have access to the files as any > other partition? > > David L. Vondrasek > dlv@watertower.com This is easy to do. 1). login as root 2). mkdir /msdos or /fat16 or /whatever you want to call partition 1 3). /mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /fat16 You can add a line like the following to /etc/fstab to make the files present when you boot up /dev/wd0s1 /msdos msdos rw 0 0 If you want to mount FAT32 partitions you need to be on 2.2.7. A noted above you can access MSDOS/Win 9x FAT partitions in FreeBSD. I don't know of a FreeBSD NTFS driver or a Win 9x/NT driver for UFS file systems. -- When I was a kid I had to rub sticks together to multiply and divide numbers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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