Is it possible to mount MSDOS partitions on the 5.4 fixit floppy?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Oct 5 11:38:26 PDT 2005


Tom Norris <tom at trancegeek.net> writes:

> I need to mount a msdos partition on from is FreeBSD 5.4 fixit
> floppy(this machine doesn't have a CD Drive :\), but when I run the
> command:
> mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt/usb-msd
> I get:
> mount: exec mount_msdos not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or
> directory.
> 
> Where could I go to get this binary?
> Could I pull it off of another FreeBSD machine I have kicking around
> or will the machine running fixit get angry at me?

I think you will need to build a statically linked version.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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