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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Failed 2.1.6 Installation
Date: 10 Dec 1996 05:15:35 -0000
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <58dqn3$df9@symiserver2.symantec.com>,
tedm@agora.rdrop.com writes:
: In <32AA41F9.46CD@nwlink.com>, cjay <cjay@nwlink.com> writes:
>>Hola!
>>
>>I am a UNIX newbie/M$ quasi-guru.
>>
>>Upon downloading the /bin, /doc, and /manpages directories from the
>>RELEASE 2.1.6 directory of ftp.freebsd.org (cdrom.com) I made the
>>appropriate(?) directories on my "C:" drive (a 1.6 seagate). Those
:
: It's been reported here several times that the MSDOS filesystem driver is
: busted, it cannot mount DOS disk partitions larger than 512MB. I don't know if this
: is fixed yet.
:
: Mounting a DOS partition larger than the limit trashes the BSD filesystem.
It can definitely mount partitions up to 1022Mb, and definitely cannot mount
1.4Gb or above. I bottled out at this point when testing - I reckon the
threshold is going from 1022Mb to 1028Mb.
awfulhak $ df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
......
/dev/wd0s2 2092032 543488 1548544 26% /dos/c
/dev/sd4s5 1798720 428928 1369792 24% /dos/d
......
Incidently, there's a new bug in 961014 ! Under win95 - on a samba share,
If you create a directory, it ends up without a '.' and '..' entry. Bad
news ! It didn't happen on 2.1.5.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.