From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 04:54:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22790 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 04:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA22782 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 04:54:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from localhost by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #24029) with SMTP id <0EUN00L017R45Z@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:54:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:54:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: Is fips truly updated to handle fat32 In-reply-to: <199806152340.TAA11095@spooky.rwwa.com> To: Robert Withrow Cc: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 Problems 2 and 3 I think I can answer. The ?? that BootEasy shows seems to be pretty common for FAT32 partitions. FAT32 isn't handled until you get to -current. However, the new mtools, mtools 3.9.1, will read and write FAT32 disks. Joe Clarke On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Robert Withrow wrote: > > marcus@miami.edu said: > :- Yes, there is a fips 1.5c that recognizes FAT32. It's in the tools > :- directory on ftp.freebsd.org. The exact path is: > :- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fips15c.tar.gz > > Thank you. This version seems to work fine with three caveats: > > 1) After fips is done doing its thing, command.com tries to restart > and gets an "out of memory" error, and the (dos) system halts. This > is using a floppy made from a W95 system. This doesn't seem to harm > anything. > > 2) Booteasy (from 2.2.6 R) shows "???" for the resulting DOS partition. > This can probably be fixed by using a newer booteasy. It boots both > partitions just fine though. > > 3) 2.2.6 R can't mount the fat32 partition. This can probably be fixed > by using -stable or applying some patches. > > I'll check around for solutions to 2 and 3. I'll try to inform the > fips developer about 1. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message