>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:41:58 +0200
>From: dante@mbox.vol.it (Dante Profeta)
>
>I've got an EIDE cd-rom (I'm running i386 netbsd1.1), but I'm not able to
>access it:
>
>   # mount_cd9660 -r /dev/xxx /mnt
>
>(xxx == cd0a || cd0d || mcd0a || mcd0d, the only ones I have)
>but it says always:
>
>   mount_cd9660: Read-only file system

I never use mount_cd9660 directly.  I use:

mount -rt cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt

>Is there a way to access ms-dos partitions?
>
>    # mount_msdos /dev/wd0d /mnt
>
>doesn't work, it says:
>
>    mount_msdos: mount: Invalid argument.
>
>If it is mountable, may I mount it as rw?

This no longer happens in -current.  If you want to stay at 1.1, then
you need to create a disklabel-sized 0xA5 partition on a blank part of
the disk, and then use the procedure from the 386BSD FAQ.
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