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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system 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!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!news.id.net!news.cic.net!condor.ic.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!ub!dsinc!news.ilab.bell-atl.com!bannf!server4!not-for-mail From: bdqjl43@segal.NJB_BAR2 (Vlad Markov) Subject: Re: Linux user's comments (since 0.98! :-) on FreeBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <DLC8JG.GC5@server4.bell-atl.com> To: bdqjl43 Sender: netnews@server4.bell-atl.com (Netnews Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: segal Organization: Bell Atlantic - NJ X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.30 (pre-beta) References: <4cr16t$obt@topcat.uk.gdscorp.com> <DKvHsK.G7@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> <staff.821763531@kyklopen.ping.dk> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:26:03 GMT Lines: 45 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:12325 comp.os.linux.development.system:15477 Thomas Sparrevohn (staff@kyklopen.ping.dk) wrote: > graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) writes: > > >: - Loadable modules don't appear to work out of the box. Compiling the > >: kernel without MSDOS support, and then saying mount_msdos gives > >: '(vfs)cannot find msdos_module'. Sounds about as broken as Linux at > >: the moment ;-) > > >i don't use msdos - but for procfs & nfs it works fine - is there a > >file msdos_mod.o in /lkm ? - moment - no it works in 2.1.0-RELEASE at > >least - i installed it last weekend at a friend - i think you must do > >anything wrong > > > The lkm's depends on /usr/bin/ld, so you have to make sure that your > msdos slice gets mounted after /usr has been mounted. The 2.1 installation > script made my fstab look like this: > > /dev/wd1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/sd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos rw 0 0 > /dev/wd1s1e /usr ufs rw 1 1 > > ... > > > which is clearly wrong if you want to use the lkm version of the > msdos file system. It should be: > > /dev/wd1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/sd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd1s1e /usr ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos rw 0 0 > ... > > otherwise mount_msdos will fail because it can't find the linker. > > -- Thomas > > > > >