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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!notasparc.k2nesoft.com!news From: Sean Evans <sevans@k2nesoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems mounting a Win95 partition. Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 18:48:08 -0500 Organization: NetK2NE Lines: 31 Message-ID: <332740B8.729D@k2nesoft.com> Reply-To: sevans@k2nesoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dport2-burl.k2nesoft.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37078 Hopefully someone has experienced this before, and can help. I'm new to FreeBSD, so I apologize if the question has already been asked a couple hundred billion times. A little background first...I've got 2 hard drives in my machine, both non-SCSI devices. One is a 3.8GB EIDE drive, and the second is a 1GB IDE drive. The first is split into 3 partitions: a 2GB partition as C: that has Win95, a 600MB partition (E:) that's currently empty, and a 1GB partition that I decided to use for FreeBSD. The second 1GB drive has only one partition (D:), and that is where I downloaded the distribution, along with quite a few packages. Now, to the problem. I was able to install via a DOS partition without any problems, however, I am unable to mount the partition once I boot. This is the command I used: mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s1 /d_drive I get a warning telling me that the FAT isn't a constant multiple of the cluster size. I can still cd to the mounted partition, but if I attempt to cp anything to /usr, the FAT gets interpreted incorrectly, and any subsequent ls of the mounted partition shows a bunch of scrambled filenames, etc. Has anyone seen this before? If so, is there anything I can do to correct it? Thanks in advance, Sean Evans