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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: mount_msdos
Date: 26 Sep 1993 16:59:57 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717
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References: <5019@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <27gap1$bca@landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <stasCDwE0E.Aw5@netcom.com>
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In article <stasCDwE0E.Aw5@netcom.com>, Stan Malyshev <stas@netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <27gap1$bca@landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk> rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Kemp) writes:
>>
>>Then
>>	mount -t msdos /dev/wd0h /dos
>>works beautifully.
>>
>
>I tried playing around with mount, and it seems that mount_msdos is
>altogether missing.  Where can I get a copy of it?
>(this was on a FreeBSD system I ftp'ed yesterday, and installed only the
>bin dist. so far)

msdosfs isn't ported to freebsd yet, it apparently requires some lower
level changes which aren't done.

use PCFS:

mount -t pcfs /dev/xyzzyplughpartition /dos
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