Subject: Re: mounting fat32 partitions
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Keith <dkeith@devo.sfasu.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/14/1998 02:20:04
> > I cannot figure out how to mount my win95 fat32 partitions on my first IDE
> > drive (wd0).  When I try mount_msdos /dev/wd0a /mnt/win95/c I get 
> > 
> > mount_msdos: mount: Device not configured.  
> 
> Are you sure your MS-DOS partition is wd0a?  On my (fat16) Win95 IDE drive, 
> the first partition is wd0e, and on my Jaz drive with one fat16 formatted
> partition, it is sd1h.  I don't know if there is rhyme or reason on how the
> fictitious disklabels are generated, but they don't necessarily follow FFS
> partition rules (e.g. the first DOS partition is probably not wd0a).
> 
> 'disklabel wd0' will tell you which NetBSD partition you should be using.
> 
> For example:
> % disklabel sd1
> disklabel: warning, DOS partition table with no valid NetBSD partition
> # /dev/rsd1d:
> type: SCSI
> disk: SCSI disk
> label: fictitious
> ...
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   d:  2091050        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 1021*)
>   h:  2090976       32       MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*- 1020*)
> 
I ran disklabel but it listed all the partitions (yes e and f *smile*) as 
fstype unused even though it should say MSDOS.  Yeah, guess I got one of
those strange ones that doesn't work like it should.

David