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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!mr.net!news.mid.net!crcnews.unl.edu!obiwan From: obiwan@engrs.unl.edu (Marc Lombardo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: mounting msdos partition Date: 25 Oct 1996 18:19:43 GMT Organization: College of Engineering & Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lines: 30 Message-ID: <54r0bv$4qm@crcnis3.unl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: engrss2.unl.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have a freebsd system setup on a 386sx with a ide hard drive.... the system boots with a dos directory in the root directory, but it is empty. When I do a man mount_msdos it says that that normally the mount(8) works automatically on bootup.... but it doesn't seem to have mounted anything from my dos partition (which is the primary partition on my hard drive). Anyway, I tried mounting a dos diskette in fd0 using mount_msdos /dev/fd0 dos, and it worked but when i entered the directory and tried to cd to directories on the floppy no files showed up. I did note that the mount_msdos function said it didn't work reliably with msdos filesystems above 3.3. This would obviously be a problem since my primary partition is msdos 6.22.... But what use would the mount_msdos function have for most users since 3.3 is fairly old? do I have any other options for transfering files from my msdos floppies or hard drive to my freebsd partition? this is fairly important for me since I prefer to use freebsd .... also, what is an easy way to write and access files to/from floppy using bsd? I successfully formatted a disk using bsd but didn't have a clue as to accessing the floppy after formatting it. sorry if this is a faq. -- marc "no, i can't see tomorrow. when i close my eyes, ... there is no tomorrow. my kingdom's of no...use. of no...use." 242