Subject: Re: How to mount ms-dos partitions?
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Stephane Engel <steph@Inox.darh.ensta.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/27/1997 15:27:59
Perry E. Metzger disait :
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>
>Usuario Universo Online writes:
>> I want to mount the msdos partition in the NetBSD so i can be able to
>> read from the msdos partition.
>
>As it stands right now, the "right way" to do this is to use
>disklabel(8) to set one of your BSD partitions to point to the DOS
>partition and to set the appropriate file type. You may then mount
>that device as an msdosfs partition. see mount(8) and mount_msdos(8)
>for more info on that.
>
>Perry
>
An easy trick to do the job is to use pfdisk.exe under MSDOS to determine
your HD geometry to disklabel it.
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Stephane ENGEL
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