From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 28 09:22:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09061 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09052 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from serv.net (dialup542.serv.net [207.207.70.107]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03692 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:22:20 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: fewtch@serv.net From: Tim Gerchmez To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: It seems FreeBSD is crashable... ;-) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, well... I had an interesting experience this morning. I was playing around with mounting my DOS (Win95) partition... works like a charm, actually, I just created a 'dos_drive_c' directory off of /, and used the command: mount_msdos /dev/wd0s2 /dos_drive_c Turns out I can actually access my main Win95 C drive (first hard drive on the primary controller - freeBSD is on a second hard drive on the secondary controller (master), with the CDROM drive as a slave). For some reason, I can't mount the D: drive on the extended partition on the first drive (wd0s3) - perhaps someone who knows more than I do can explain why. Anyway, it's nice to have some extra storage space for temporary stuff in 8.3 filename format, should I need it (highly unlikely), or to grab a text file I had downloaded under Win95 or something. I have it automatically set up to mount now in .login so I can access it anytime I please. I'm aware of the risks of writing to the DOS filesystem from FreeBSD, BTW... and plan to use it mostly for copying FROM the DOS drive TO a directory on my FreeBSD drive. Now, for the crashable part - I have an OS/2 boot manager partition on /dev/wd0s1. Just for kicks, I tried: mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /tmp Guess what... FreeBSD instantly locked up. No keyboard input, no daemons running, nothing... followed by an instant, unclean reboot a few seconds later (all slices dirty on reboot). So it turns out it is possible to completely crash FreeBSD :-) (someone's gonna tell me I should have known that already). BTW, I also figured out how to mount my CDROM drive using mount_cd9660 using the device specified in /etc/fstab. That could be convenient in the future. Tim ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez Date: 28-Jun-98 Time: 09:09:12 This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message