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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!nsw1.news.telstra.net!sa.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!usenet.cisco.com!usenet From: "Keith A. Tomkins" <ktomkins@cisco.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: mounting a DOS partition Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:35:29 -0700 Organization: cisco.com Lines: 44 Message-ID: <325EBDA0.41C67EA6@cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ktomkins-ss20.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) I just set up a pentium system with 2.1.5. It has two 2 gig IDE hard drives in it. The first has Windoze 95 on it and the second one has FreeBSD. I mounted the DOS drive to copy some files to it. Then I unmounted and logged out so that I could log back in as root and reboot the system. When I logged out, ld.so started complaining. The system was so hosed, that I had to hit the reset to reboot. When it tried to come back up, the file system was so screwed, that fsck could not correct it. I even tried booting to single user mode and running it manually. No luck, my BSD drive was trashed !! However, the DOS drive came through this undamaged. On my last system, I had a single 2 gig scsi drive that had two partitions, one for Win95 and the other for BSD. I used to mount the DOS partition all the time with no problems. I guess my question is, should this work OK with this configuration? Is the fact the the DOS IDE drive is 2 gigs a problem? The BIOS knows the size etc. Since this operation worked on my old system, I didn't suspect that there might be some compatibilty problem with the Win95 fs. Am I missing something obvious here?? Do I need to set up a small (10 - 20 meg) partition to use for transferring files?? Thanks for your help Keith -- ***************************************************************************** * Keith A. Tomkins + Cisco Systems, Inc. + || || * * Phone (408) 526-8373 + Workgroup Business Unit + || || * * Pager (408) 322-6571 + 170 W. Tasman Dr. + |||| |||| * * E-mail: + San Jose, CA 95134-1706 + ..:||||||:..:||||||:.. * * ktomkins@cisco.com + + Cisco Systems Inc. * *****************************************************************************