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From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win95 / mounting an ms-dos partition
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 17:37:19 -0500
Organization: The Watermark Group
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Mark Tinguely wrote:
> 
> In article <32AF00F2.41C67EA6@iastate.edu>,
> Ben Vaughan  <benvon@iastate.edu> wrote:
> >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?
> 
> as root:
> 
> mkdir /msdos
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos
> 
My advice, DON'T do that. The msdosfs code is broken, it will screw up
your bsd partition. Wait until vfatfs is released.
-lq