On Wed, 28 Feb 1996 08:58:16 -0500  martin.loeffler@utoronto.ca wrote:
> 
> Well, when I do a 'disklabel /dev/sd0d', it returns:
> 
> disklabel: warning, DOS parition table with no valid NetBSD partition
> 
> So it's recognizing the fact that it's a DOS-formatted disk. It also reports
> 4 parititions on the disk, so I think /dev/sd0d is correct. So (deep breath)
> what's the difference between:

Not necessarily.  What does fdisk /dev/rsd0d report?  Does it see a DOS
partition?  If so, you will need to use Charles' hack at the end of Ken's
"Partitioning MS-DOS disk for NetBSD use" document that I posted.  Basically
you cannot disklabel a disk that doesn't have a NetBSD partition, and you
can't mount partitions from a disk without a disklabel :-)

Now Michael said he has been able to mount DOS ZIP disks without a
disklabel, but they also were not partitioned (ie the DOS partition
started at sector 0, not 1 track in and contained no MBR.  I really
don't understand how it works tho.

Michael, can you go into more detail on how you made it work?