I have not had a similar issue.  Since you are trying to mount the
DOS partition, I assume that you are at a NetBSD shell.

How did you create the DOS partition in the first place?  Which kernel
did you boot?  Would you send the last few lines of the output from
"disklabel wd0"?  Just the partitions (a: b: c: ...)

Cheers,

Ben


On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:27:55PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the advice.  Unfortunately, I don't have access to any
> NetBSD systems.  I have a mac, I have tried setting up a virtual
> netBSD box with virtualPC, but installation fails.  Try as I may, I
> cannot get the MSDOS partition of the CF to mount.  Has anyone had
> similar issues?  The sets are all there, I just can't get to them, its
> very frustrating.
> I do not have much experience with *nix, but am hoping to learn if
> this can work out.
> 
> If anyone has suggestions on how else I could do this...
> 
> Cheers,
> Elijah
> 
> 
> On 2/25/06, Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am not sure why the installer cannot access your filesystems.  I just
> > do a manual install from a NetBSD/i386 system with a USB CF reader.
> > The card shows up as wd0 on hpcmips and sd1 on my USB reader.  It goes
> > something like this:
> >   newfs -O 2 /dev/sd1a
> >   mount /dev/sd1a /mnt
> >   cd /mnt
> >   for set in /build/3.0/work/hpcmips/rel/hpcmips/binary/sets/*.tgz
> >   do
> >     pax -r -v -z -p e -f $set
> >   done
> >   cp /build/3.0/work/hpcmips/obj/sys/arch/hpcmips/compile/MOBY/netbsd .
> >   cd dev
> >   sh MAKEDEV all
> >   cd ../etc
> >   echo "/dev/sd1a / ffs rw,noatime,softdep 1 1" >>fstab
> >   echo "rc_configured=YES" >>rc.conf
> >   cd /
> >   umount /mnt
> >   mount -t msdos /dev/sd1e /mnt
> >   cp /build/3.0/work/hpcmips/rel/hpcmips/installation/hpcboot.exe /mnt
> >   umount /mnt
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:23:11PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote:
> > > Hello all.  I am trying to install netBSD 2.0.2 onto a MobilePro 780.
> > > The only network adapter I have is a Proxim Orinoco Silver PCMCIA,
> > > which is not recognized, so network installation is not an option.
> > >
> > > I have a 120 mb MSDOS partition on a CompactFlash card (its 1gb, the
> > > rest is netBSD partition), which I load the installer from and also
> > > have the precompiled sets and kernel-Generic on.  Unfortunately, I am
> > > unable to mount the msdos filesystem from the installer, and cannot
> > > access the sets or kernel-generic.  I have tried "mount -t msdos
> > > /dev/wd0e /mnt2", but it says: "mount_msdos: /dev/wd0e on mnt2:
> > > Invalid argument".
> > >
> > > (wd0e is my msdos partition)
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > elijah
> >