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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Magic # patches and Seeing a DOS partition Date: 1 Oct 1993 00:28:21 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 37 Message-ID: <28ftj5$faf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CE2szt.q5@luva.stgt.sub.org> <CE6GEt.1Ho@ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CE6GEt.1Ho@ucdavis.edu>, Jason Gabler <ccjason@othello.ucdavis.edu> wrote: > >Question #1: > > In trying to use my laser printer, I needed to have some filetring >scripts running. However, as the instructions say, there was a bug in 386bsd >magic # for scripts of sorts. This bug has rolled over to FreeBSD and I canot >run my lpr/d properly. Does anyone know what the patches were for (I believe >it is) /etc/magic to fix the magic # problem? Huh?? I can parse the above sentence. What exactly are you taking about with regard to magic #'s and scripts? FreeBSD can run scripts like any other Unix machine, and it picks up the command line parameters. What exactly is the error you are getting? >Question #2: > > I installed FreeBSD on a friend system with the newest kernel and >installation (fs) floppy. He chose to keep his DOS partition, but I have no >idea how to mount it. E.g. even with mount_pcfs, I cannot seem to figure out >which /dev/wd*** to use ... I feel sort of stupid not being able to get this, >but help woul dbe appreciated. Its all on /dev/rwd0d with FreeBSD on >partition 3 and DOS ( BIG > 32M ) on partition 0. You have to create a BSD partition (a-h) which contains the DOS partition. (but don't use c or d) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me