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From: Ben Vaughan <benvon@iastate.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD & Win95 / mounting an ms-dos partition
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:44:02 -0600
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Here's my story. . . My computer crashed, so I decided to try FreeBSD
because I have been reading about it a lot and I thought it would be
fun.  Well, it is fun, but I tried to reinstall win95 and it messed up
the OS loader.  Can anybody help me here?  

My other problem is . . . I can't mount the ms-dos partition of my
harddrive.  I type in    mount -t msdosfs /dev/wd0 /msdos  and it tells
me   mount: exec /usr/sbin/mount_msdosfs for /msdos: No such file or
directory    I assume that this means that I don't have the file
mount_msdosfs.  Where can I get it?

I am a 100% newbie to BSD so be gentle, please .

Thanks in advance   . . .

Ben Vaughan