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From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win95 / mounting an ms-dos partition
Date: 11 Dec 1996 13:45:23 -0600
Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <32AF00F2.41C67EA6@iastate.edu>,
Ben Vaughan  <benvon@iastate.edu> wrote:
>fun.  Well, it is fun, but I tried to reinstall win95 and it messed up
>the OS loader.  Can anybody help me here?

1) boot the install disk
2) choose custom
3) choose Label
4) type W (hidden option)
5) at warning message, type 'y', it will rewrite the boot blocks
6) enter "q"
7) cancel the custom menu
8) exit installation. this will reboot with boot easy boot blocks
   
>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

--mark.