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From: klier@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan Klier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Cannot mount floppy formatted with mformat
Date: 26 May 1994 05:16:52 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
>ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh) writes:
>>Has enybode else encountered this problem. Whenever I format a floppy with
>>mformat I cann access it with mtools, can read it from DOS but I'm unable
>>to mout it (mount -t pcfs /dev/fd?a).
>What OS are you running? A long time ago, NetBSD had this problem because
>it checked for some particular values in an optional boot header on the
>MSDOS disk image. At some point in the distant past, that check got taken
>out (I think well before NetBSD-0.9).
I discovered the same problem, running the recent FreeBSD-1.1-RELEASE.
This problem occured when I tried to install this release from floppies
which I made on a sun workstation using mformat and mwrite.
Using these floppies with the mtools is no problem. Using these floppies
under DOS is no problem either.
The error message issued by mount_pcfs is <invalid argument> if I remember
it right.
jan
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