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From: obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS problems
Date: 2 Mar 1996 10:11:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Paul Walsh (paul@nation-net.com) wrote:
: Last night I mounted my DOS filesystem wd0s1. Today I am re-installing
: FreeBSD ( mmm, goody ). Seriously, this is a bit scary. Fortuneately it 
: was a new installation. 

Yep, done that twice.  Let me guess, you have a MS-DOS parition greater
than 504 Meg.

There were two people in the hackers list that signed up to work on the
FAT filesys problems.  Maybe they are getting closer to fix???

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
   FreeBSD Satisfied customer