Subject: DOS mount, I should have listened...
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: John Maier <JohnAM@datastorm.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/01/1995 15:23:00
Okay, I thought I knew the answer to this question but...how do you mount a
100% DOS bootable, formatted hard-drive? I've never had any problems with
diskettes and 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt'
If I try
'mount -t msdos /dev/wd0a /dosmnt'
I get
'msdos: mount: Invalid argument'
So I dug some more and I find in the FAQ something about doing a disklabel.
So I entered:
'dislabel -e -r /dev/wd0a'
It tells me all about my IDE hard-drive: bytes/sec=512, sect/track=10
tracks/cyl(heads)=10, sect/cyl=170, and cyl=980 etc. (88 meg.)
I see my old partition(s) from an earlier install (NetBSD 0.9) and since I
no longer need it (do I ?) I changed it to read:
1 partitions:
size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpy]
a: 166600 0 MS-DOS #(Cyl. 0-979)
Still no good!!! Help Help Help!!! All I wanted to do was try WinE!
I cannot be blamed for not trying.
thanks
jam
BTW at least DOS still boots after my poking around!
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