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From: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe CHARNIER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0: MS-DOS partition
Date: 05 Jan 1995 12:33:02 GMT
Organization: LIRM - Montpellier France
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Message-ID: <CHARNIER.95Jan5133302@baobab.lirmm.fr>
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In-reply-to: s2887@FB1.FHTW-Berlin.DE's message of 5 Jan 1995 12:32:34 +0100
>>>>> "Hartwin" == Hartwin Rohde <s2887@FB1.FHTW-Berlin.DE> writes:
In article <3eglci$aqu@mars.fb1.fhtw-berlin.de> s2887@FB1.FHTW-Berlin.DE (Hartwin Rohde) writes:
Hartwin> In FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 there was the DOS-partition
Hartwin> automaically available after installation. I was a bit
Hartwin> surprised, that it was not after installing 2.0. I
I am a bit surprised too. I installed FreeBSD-2.0 on two friend's computers
and msdos partition was enabled by installation.
Hartwin> imported the DOS-partition (using command disklabel) to
Hartwin> wd0h at installation time. My DOS-partiton contains
Msdos was on wd0e
Hartwin> DRDOS6 and is 120MByte large/small. I created in FreeBSD
Hartwin> manually a folder /dos (mkdir /dos) and mounted the
Hartwin> partition with mount -t msdos -r /dev/wd0h /dos It
Hartwin> works. (-r stands for read only access) Finally I added
Hartwin> this mount command to the /etc/rc batch file which is
Hartwin> executed at boot time.
You should add the mount entry in /etc/fstab not in /etc/rc.
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