*BSD News Article 26167


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zib-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!nuggets
From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PCFS on Harddisks ?
Date: 18 Jan 1994 10:22:51 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Lines: 32
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hgd9r$86l@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <2hdnlq$fqb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <JKH.94Jan17222631@whisker.lotus.ie>
NNTP-Posting-Host: alaspin.cs.tu-berlin.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.lotus.ie) wrote:
: In article <2hdnlq$fqb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) writes:
:    Will FreeBSD be able to mount local DOS-HardDisks in Version 1.1 ?
:    (1.0 only mounts floppys)

: Das ist aber nicht wahr! :-)

: jkh@whisker-> df
: Filesystem  512-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
: /dev/sd0a       926622  717818  116140    86%    /
: /dev/sd1a      2845116 2269872  290732    89%    /usr1
: /dev/sd0e       306832  277712   29120    91%    /dos_c
: /dev/cd0d      1325800 1325800       0   100%    /cdrom
: proc               180      50     130    28%    /proc
: jkh@whisker-> ls /dos_c 
: adaptec         config._sb      dos             qemm            util
: autoexec._sb    config.sys      emm386.exe      ramdrive.sys    windows
: autoexec.bat    copying         himem.sys       rawrite3.com    winfax
: bin             dooma           io.sys          smartdrv.exe
: bootdisk        doomb           msdos.sys       stacker.log
: command.com     doomc           old             stacvol.dsk

: (The ability to do this has been in since pre-1.0 FreeBSD)

: 				Jordan

hmmm...sorry, someone told me, that i must write a DiskLabel onto DOS-disk
(the entire sd2 is dos.)
i have old documents of pcfs and i tried 'mount -t pcfs /dev/sd2a /dos'
where can i found the book 'step by step mounting a dos-harddisk'  ?

Lars.