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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: mikebo@MCS.COM (Michael Borowiec) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: FreeBSD 2.0: someone please fix mount_pcfs Date: 18 Aug 1994 01:43:30 -0500 Organization: MCSNet, Chicago's First Public-Access Internet! Lines: 32 Message-ID: <32uvui$dov@Venus.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.com It would be nice if mount_pcfs would mount a DOS partition from a DOS only hard disk (one without a UNIX disk label). I have two SCSI drives, one exclusively FreeBSD and the other exclusively DOS. Depending on which OS I want to run, I simply swap SCSI ID 0 and 1 and re-boot. Having used a boot manager for quite some time, and having trashed and re-built my DOS partition more times than I care to remember, IMHO this is a much better solution. I have used many PC UNICES (Interactive, SCO, UnixWare, BSD386) and I believe FreeBSD is the only one of these that can't mount a DOS partition from a DOS only hard drive (again, without a UNIX disk label). 'Cuz I am not a filesystem hacker (by any stretch) perhaps I am naive, but I can't believe this would be that hard to do. I can easily envision half-a-dozen scenarios where this functionality would be indispensable and, right now, I can't get at my DOS stuff from UNIX (without backing up, relabeling, repartitioning, making new filesystems and reloading). I purposely used two disks so I wouldn't have to do anything "special" to my DOS partition/disk/whatever. I don't *want* to have to put UNIX label on my DOS disk. - Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec All tied to their things, mikebo@MCS.COM they are netted by the strings... Free to flutter, in memory of their wasted wings... P.Gabriel -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec All tied to their things, mikebo@MCS.COM they are netted by the strings... Free to flutter, in memory of their wasted wings... P.Gabriel