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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!snooze.ser.bbnplanet.com!news.mountain.net!Access.Mountain.Net!jzimba From: jzimba@Access.Mountain.Net (Joel Zimba) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: dos from install disks? Date: 5 Jan 1996 14:21:46 GMT Organization: MountainNet, Inc. Morgantown WV 800.444.1458 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4cjc5r$2hk@news.mountain.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: access.mountain.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I am installing freebsd 1.1 I would like to put the base11 file onto my partition by simply mounting dos and untarring it. I got the mount_msdos program with the installation, but when I try to do the mount, it says that the kernel does not support msdos filesystem. Okay! Why are the mount_msdos programs and mount_cd9660 programs there if the kernel can't mount those filesystems? and furthermore why can't the kernel do it? I coud install much more quickly if I could simply copy the tar files over and extract them! could someone give me a hand? thanks Joel