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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting DOS drives antics Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:25:32 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32C61CEC.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <59etkk$b2i@news.xs4all.nl> <32C44B71.6B6@memes.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Dona Hertel <dhertel@memes.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33237 Dona Hertel wrote: > I have a similar setup and problem. I have DOS on my first drive > and FreeBSD on my second drive. When I mounted my first drive, it You've run afoul of your first bug, congrats. :-) This is a well-known evil, and all I can recommend is that you not mount that DOS partition until we have it fixed (next few weeks should see a complete rewrite of msdosfs). In the meantime, I can only suggest mtools, which you'll find in the ports collection. > Also, can someone recommend a book on FreeBSD that would be good See the bibliography section of the handbook. I recommend UNIX in a Nutshell from O'Reilly (which you'll find there) and Evi Nemeth's book on system administration. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project