Subject: mounting a dos HD under netbsd 1.0
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.AU>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/11/1995 20:39:46
Hello folks,
I suspect this is a FAQ but I cannot find the right
bit of the FAQ :-(
I am running netbsd on a PC and want to partition my hard disk to have
a small MS-DOS partition (bitten by the DOOM bug I'm afraid ;-). I
have succeeded in partitioning the disk so that both NetBSD and DOS
happily coincide. The partitioning I have looks like this:
a: 0 - 31 cyls DOS
b: 32 - 201 cyls NetBSD
c: 32 - 201 cyls NetBSD "whole disk"
Now when I try to mount the DOS partition I get an error about invalid
arguments (definitely not "device not configured"). Now, I _do_ have
the MSDOSFS option configured into the kernel as I can mount a DOS
floppy. I suspect that my partitioning is not right but the above
solution was the only one I could find that did not screw up the DOS
partition when I did a disklabel under NetBSD. Help!
BTW Yes, I am sure about my disk geometry! I am using the translated
numbers for NetBSD.
--
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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