According to Michael Richardson:
>
>  I then wondered why we needed to do that. Couldn't I just mount the
>IDE drive as an MSDOS partition. Alas, this is a Win95 drive. I think
>it has a large block allocation size. I thought we could do this with
>the "wd0d" partition. No luck. I get:
>  # mount -t msdos /dev/wd0d /mnt
>  msdos: mount: Invalid argument
>

You need to do a disklabel first - from memory it is a "disklabel -R
wd0d", this will complain about no disklabel on the disk but seems to
make the kernel aware of the disk geometry.  One you have done the
disklabel you should be able to mount the drive.  This is what I do
with my "all dos" disk.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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