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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.ohsu.edu!facman!caldwell From: caldwell@facman.ohsu.edu (Larry Caldwell) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FREE BSD Date: 6 Jul 1994 22:32:37 GMT Organization: Oregon Health Scieneces University Lines: 37 Message-ID: <2vfbe5$52f@steele.ohsu.edu> References: <CsC8n3.1Kv@suncd.abc.se> <2vctk8$sn@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.53.70.200 nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: > >Anders Ekengren <m8575@suncd.abc.se> wrote: >> >>The installation is going well until it ask if I want to have my Dos >>partition visible from BSD. I want that so I answered Yes on the question. >> >>It start to work but when stopp and tells me that there is no /etc/inittab. > >Umm, I'm real confused since /etc/inittab doesn't exist on BSD machines, and >FreeBSD doesn't need it either. Are you SURE that's the error you are >getting, since it's not from FreeBSD? Well, I just installed freeBSD last weekend, and didn't see anything like that. I did have a question though, about mounting dos partitions. I found a file called mount_pcfs, which I assume means mount pc file system. When I run it, I get a "no disk label" error. 'man disklabel' gives me all sorts of info about the format of the lable, and tells me it gets written to cylinder 0, which scares me to death. I also need to somehow supply hardware info about the drive. I can do that with my second IDE drive, but as far as I know my 3 scsi drives are absolute addressing block devices. At least no utility I have will give me the number of heads, cylinders, etc. Could someone explain how to mount a dos FAT drive (both ide and scsi) under freeBSD, or at least point me at a walk-through? I DO have the CD, so maybe just haven't found it. I followed the directions in one of the readme files for mounting the cd, and that worked fine. -- Puzzled -- -- Larry Caldwell: caldwell@ohsu.edu | larryc@teleport.com | CIS 72210,2273 Phone (503) 494-2232, Fax (503) 494-4256 Oregon Health Sciences University.