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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.pbi.net!news.mathworks.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.242.23.5!nwlink.com!not-for-mail From: cjay <cjay@nwlink.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win95 / mounting an ms-dos partition Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:57:23 -0800 Organization: is lacking Lines: 41 Message-ID: <32AF9EC3.5341@nwlink.com> References: <32AF00F2.41C67EA6@iastate.edu> Reply-To: cjay@nwlink.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ip064.mu3.nwlink.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32433 Ben Vaughan wrote: > > Here's my story. . . My computer crashed, so I decided to try FreeBSD > because I have been reading about it a lot and I thought it would be > fun. Well, it is fun, but I tried to reinstall win95 and it messed up > the OS loader. Can anybody help me here? > > My other problem is . . . I can't mount the ms-dos partition of my > harddrive. I type in mount -t msdosfs /dev/wd0 /msdos and it tells > me mount: exec /usr/sbin/mount_msdosfs for /msdos: No such file or > directory I assume that this means that I don't have the file > mount_msdosfs. Where can I get it? > > I am a 100% newbie to BSD so be gentle, please . > > Thanks in advance . . . > > Ben Vaughan Hola. I'm new to FreeBSD as well but can help you out here I think as I am thoroughly familiar with Win95. Windows95 will EAT you boot sector everytime you install it. Doesn't matter whats there. It likes to "be incharge" so to speak so it will completely overwrite your boot sector with its own. No biggie though. Just reinstall the "OS loader" that you were using and your good to go. With the one that the folks who put FreeBSD together it will have an option for DOS. Just pick that and you're on your way to Windows95....you can still do the whole F8 deal with Windows95 too. You can find it in the ./tools subdirectory on the ftp site for the version of FreeBSD you're running. As for the mounting of an MS-DOS partition you may want to leave off the "fs" part of mount_msdosfs so that it reads "mount_msdos" and try again. Hope this helps and that I didn't just cause your processor to fry. ;) Hasta! mailto:cjay@nwlink.com