Subject: Re: Mounting a dos hd
To: Noby Nobriga <eos@felix.teclink.net>
From: Roland C Dowdeswell <roland@imrryr.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/09/1996 01:47:06
On 823818688 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch Noby Nobriga wrote:
>
>
>First, I'd like to say thanks to ALL of the people who helped me with my
>"installing sets" problem and mounting the floppy. Thanks.
>
>Now, I've got some more mounting questions.
>
>I have an 81 Meg hd that I've partitioned 20M for DOS and 61M for
>NetBSD. Can someone tell me how I can mount my dos partition on this
>drive? Here's some information if you may need it to help me better.
>
>Also, I've searched through FAQs and all, but have failed in having
>anything work.
You need to edit the NetBSD disklabel, and create a MSDOS partition
in it. So use say f:, and give it the the appropriate size and offset
(that is the location of said MSDOS partition.) and I _think_ that
the fstype will be MSDOS <grin>, then just mount it by:
mount -t msdos /dev/wd?f /mnt
>5 partitions:
># size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 32640 43010 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 253 - 444)
> b: 24480 75650 swap # (Cyl. 445 - 588)
> c: 122740 43010 unused # (Cyl. 253 - 974)
> d: 166090 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 976)
> e: 65620 100130 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 589 - 974)
>
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>
>Also, I have a second hd that's entirely dos. How can I mount this as well?
Not sure, I've never tried this one...
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