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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!matlock.mindspring.com!nntp.mindspring.com!usenet From: frankh@mindspring.com (Frank A. Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0: MS-DOS partition Date: 3 Jan 1995 01:42:48 GMT Organization: ----- Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3eaa2o$d38@henri.mindspring.com> References: <3e8fdf$rvk@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: frankh.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NetSuite News for OS/2 [version: 3.3i UNREGISTERED 25 days remaining] In message <3e8fdf$rvk@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> - s9407307@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Greg) writes: >... >tried to connect the MSDOS partition using the mount_msdos command >but to no avail. The system simply dies on me when I execute the >command, and I can do nothing (even backgrounding the task initally >causes it to halt everything else) Is your DOS partition >32MB in size? I have the same problem with large (>500MB) DOS partitions, while a small partition is OK. Somewhere in one of the FAQ's is a mention that support for partitions for DOS > 3.3 may be somehwat problematic. Unless I am suffering from memory failure, DOS <= 3.3 was limtited to 32MB primary partitions. Frank A. Hughes frankh@mindspring.com