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From: s9407307@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Greg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0: MS-DOS partition
Date: 3 Jan 1995 05:36:16 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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frankh@mindspring.com (Frank A. Hughes) writes:
>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.
I have a 150MB MS-DOS partition running under MS-DOS version 5
and I managed to get it to work with no problems under version 1.1
You are correct about the part in the FAQ's about Hard drives greater
than 32MB, I found that after I posted initially.
MS-DOS 3.3 and below do not allow drives greater than 32MB, but I
would have thought that this wouldn't affect BSD. Is the updated
filesystems of MSDOS totally stuffed or something (silly question,
EVERYTHING about MSDOS is stuffed ;)? I have tried to install BSD 2.0
THREE TIMES, doing different configurations and so on, but that hasn't
helped, either. It just doesn't want to know about it!
--
Greg Boug. Comp. Sci student at RMIT in Australia
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