On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Richard Horwood wrote:

> At home I have finalyl got around to installing NetBSD.  I am left with
> a small linux install (mainly to use LILO to mutli-boot linux/windoze/netbsd)
> and 2 windoze partitions.  It occurs to me that I could conceivably mount
> my linux partition and symlink the required libraries to /emul/linux rather
> than copy them there to run linux emulation.
> 
> I have compiled my netbsd-1.3.2 kernel with support for linux' ext2fs
> and msods support.  I presume NetBSD does not support FAT-32 filesystems
> so I am not attempting to mount one of those.
> 
	I think you'll find NetBSD can mount FAT32 :)

> I have 2 hard drives, the first /dev/wd0 contains 2 partitions, a FAT32
> partition, and a FAT16 partition in the extended partition.  The second
> contains 1 linux ext2fs partition, one linux swap partition and the rest
> is my NetBSD partition.
> 
> I have looked over the disklabel and fdisk man pages, and I am unsure
> how to go about getting these filesystems mounted.  As I am not on the
> offending machine at the moment, I am unable to cut 'n paste the exact
> results of everything that I have tried, however disklabel generally
> fails with 
> 
> /dev/<disk> no label
> 
> Any guidance would be greatly appreciated - I am still trying to 
> de-linuxify myself and get my head around disklabels etc.
> 
	Work out which region of the disk contains the offending
	partition, then use disklabel -e to set a spare partition
	to match those parameters, then mount it :)

	David