> > a) how to mount partitions of various filesystems ?
> >    [ as you can see below the naming convention in netbsd seems to be
> different
> > from FreeBSD]
> 
> The disklabel output you posted let me believe it's not the one from
> NetBSD, as the NetBSD root partition should be a (as shown in your
> mount command output).
> mrlabel(8) can help you adding the partitions to the NetBSD disklabel, and
> mount them.
> 
> 

That's from netbsd only but from sysinst (from current 200312130000 build).
mbrlabel output is as follows: [Thanks to Jeremy & others who responded on
netbsd-help, I now know about mbrlabel.] Looks like the way to distinguish
FreeBSD partitions from NetBSD is the cpg/sgs info. For FreeBSD it shows up as
16.

16 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:   1049328   4192965     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43728  # (Cyl.   4159*-  
5200*)
 b:   1049328   5242293       swap                     # (Cyl.   5200*-  
6241*)
 c:   4192965   4192965     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.   4159*-  
8319*)
 d: 156301488         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 - 155060)
 e:   4192902        63 Linux Ext2      0     0        # (Cyl.      0*-  
4159*)
 f:   2094309   6291621     4.2BSD   1024  8192 45536  # (Cyl.   6241*-  
8319*)
 g:     16384   8385930     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16  # (Cyl.   8319*-  
8335*)
 h:     16384  54508608     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16  # (Cyl.  54076 - 
54092*)
 i:  20964762  12578958     4.2BSD   2048 16384 28064  # (Cyl.  12479*- 
33277*)
 j:  20964762  33543783     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.  33277*- 
54075*)
 k:  20964762  96438258 Linux Ext2      0     0        # (Cyl.  95672*-
116471*)
 l:  20964762 117403083 Linux Ext2      0     0        # (Cyl. 116471*-
137269*)
 m:  16354107 138367908 Linux Ext2      0     0        # (Cyl. 137269*-
153494*)
 n:   1574307 154722078       swap                     # (Cyl. 153494*-
155055*)
 o:     16384  75473433     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16  # (Cyl.  74874*- 
74890*)
 p:     16384   8385930     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16  # (Cyl.   8319*-  
8335*)
> > 
> > b) is there a tool to assist in package selection and installation like
> > apt-get/apt-cache search as in Debian linux (or portupgrade as in FreeBSD)
> ?
> 
> I think such a tool has just been added to the package system. I don't
> remember his name.
> 
ok ..

> > 
> > c) FreeBSD 5.1 seems to have added ACLs feature to ufs filesystems (used by
> > default). Can it be mounted as read-only filesystem on NetBSD ?
> 
> Yes, this should work.
> 
There seems to be a problem here. The mount is possible only in read-only mode
and works only partially. Following is the output. I cant see any /etc/* files,
etc.

Maybe their ufs2 with ACL support is not fully compatible ?

# mount -t ufs /dev/wd0g /mnt
mount_ufs: /dev/wd0g on /mnt: incorrect super block
# mount -t ufs -o ro /dev/wd0g /mnt
# ls /mnt/
.cshrc    bin       dev       etc       mnt       stand     var
.profile  boot      disk      home      proc      sys
COPYRIGHT cdrom     dist      mbr       root      tmp
MBR       compat    entropy   mbr1      sbin      usr
# ls /mnt/*
ls: /mnt/boot: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/dev: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/dist: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/etc: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/mnt: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/proc: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/root: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/sbin: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/stand: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/tmp: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/usr: Invalid argument
ls: /mnt/var: Invalid argument
/mnt/COPYRIGHT  /mnt/compat     /mnt/home       /mnt/mbr1
/mnt/MBR        /mnt/entropy    /mnt/mbr        /mnt/sys

/mnt/bin:
[          csh        ed         link       ps         rmail      sync
cat        date       expr       ln         pwd        rmdir      tcsh
chflags    dd         getfacl    ls         rcp        setfacl    test
chio       df         hostname   mkdir      realpath   sh         unlink
chmod      domainname kenv       mv         red        sleep
cp         echo       kill       pax        rm         stty

/mnt/cdrom:

/mnt/disk:
# /mnt/bin/date
Wed Dec 31 06:39:06 PST 2003

> > 
> > 
> > Sysinst recognizes all the filesystems, but when I boot the regular kernel
> I
> > couldn't see a way of mounting those partitions.
> 
> This is the default disklabel build by the kernel. I'm not sure sysinst has
> keept all the partitions, and if it did, is has probably reordered them
> (to have 'a' as the root filesystem, 'b' as swap).
> 

BTW there was one more problem that I experienced with sysinst. I am not sure
if it was because I created the partitions from Linux. I booted from the
netbsd-current 20031213000 build floppies and pointed to the distribution set
on releng.netbsd.org. I used to consistently get coredumps, but one case worked
after various combinations, so I could install netbsd-current successfully. I
have the coredump but since sysinst is a stripped-version, it might not be very
useful. I thought it is worth-mentioning it if it wasn't seen before.

Thanks,
Srini.

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