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#! rnews 2189 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hackers/EVERYONE please READ THIS!! Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 01:47:58 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 32 Message-ID: <31E21CBE.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> References: <31de9605.576732@news.infolink.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 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Benjamin Lim <fade@infolink.net> Benjamin Lim wrote: > I've been trying to solve this problem for ages now but with no luck. > > People have told me to make my partition with the freebsd source > smaller (the dos partition) , but I just can't do that cause win95 is > in it. Can't u hackers just make FreeBSD work with the Adaptec 7850 > and my SEAGATE hard disk? Please read the below article which I posted > a few days ago...HELP :( And yes, i only have 1 VERY BIG HARD DISK (2 > gigs)... I'm sorry, but as I told you before, we simply CAN'T help you. It's a bug in the msdosfs driver, it *is* being worked on, and it won't be ready for some weeks yet (possibly even several months). If you can install another operating system in the meantime which does work, I can only suggest that you go that route or avail yourself of one of the work-arounds I've already suggested to you several times: 1. Shrink your DOS partition down until it stops tickling the bug (which appears to be related in some way to the MSDOSFS cluster size). 2. Find some other way to install which doesn't involve your DOS partition. It's that simple. Now please STOP yelling repeatedly for us to fix this! We know about the problem, we are working on a solution, and if fixing it is going to take more time than you'd like, well, sorry dude! We can't do it all at warp speed and we've already decided when and how we're going to handle this problem. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project