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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!news3.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DOS FAT FS support in FreeBSD fixed ? Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 08:07:08 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <32BC0B2B.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <59g13d$hh@herald.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Daniel Ts'o <dantso@cris.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32894 Daniel Ts'o wrote: > Not too long ago I recall that the FAT support under FreeBSD was > considered broken, particularly for writing in a FAT filesystem. Has > this been fixed ? What is the state of FAT support under FreeBSD ? Nothing has changed, though I have gone to a stand-alone DOS I/O library for FreeBSD 2.2 in the installation, so you should at least be able to *install* your FreeBSD system from a DOS partition. Whether that DOS partition is still useful to you after you boot (e.g. whether or not you can mount and use it successfully) is still a matter of luck and having a DOS partition <511MB in size. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project