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From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Luke Mewburn)
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Subject: Re: MSDOS-fs mountable ?
Date: 16 Jan 1993 13:43:27 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) writes:
>In article <1ivfe4EINNjlj@uni-erlangen.de>,
>admerlev@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Arnd Merlevede) writes:
>> Hi, does anybody know, if there is an easy way of accessing
>> the MSDOS filesystem from BSD or the other way around ?
>> I tried mount -t .... , but to no avail.
>> Thanx for your ppointers
>> Arnd
>There were some patches, called PCFS, posted here to upgrade the file
>system to understand MSDOS file systems. I have them if you need them.
Unfortunately, PCFS (with the 2 patches I have for it) can't recognize
a dos HD partition without doing some disklabel stuff on the HD (which
I haven't done cause I'm not that familiar with disklabel and don't
wanna lose my dos partition - it contains my terminal program and
games :). If someone knows how to get pcfs to recognize c: with
disklabel, can they post some easy-to-follow instructions?
>Alternatively, you can use the MTools programs. If you do it needs to be
>recompiled or you have to remake the floppy devices by running
>"sh MAKEDEV fd0 fd1" from /dev.
And there was a patch for mtools2.05 to allow it to read from c: as
well. I've actually hacked the patch to work with mtools2.07 (the
latest version), and when I get a bit of time, i'll put this newer
version of ref.tfs in the usual places.
>--
>Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
> | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
> | what is wrong with it.
--
Luke Mewburn [Zak] zak@rmit.edu.au
"Nobody dies on the Discworld, they just become dimensionally
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