At 13:03 21/12/99 -0600, you wrote:
>In article <3.0.5.32.19991221153503.007e7ba0@sirius.gsi.fr>,
>Richard PLOIX <richard.ploix@fr.adp.com> wrote:
>>The second problem is :
>>>> how to mount the D:, E:, F:, G:, (logical disque in msdos language), and
>>>> eventualy how to view the extend msdos partition?
>>--->--->
>>hello, this documentation is good for my first MSDOS partition on sd0.
>>fdisk sd0:
>>   NetBSD geometry cyl 3511 head 11 s/tr 108 (1188 s/c)
>>partition table
>>   0 sysid 6 (Primary 'big' DOS, 16-bit FAT (>32MB))
>>      start 63 size 4176837 (2039MB) flag 0x80
>>   1<UNUSED>
>>   2<UNUSED>
>>   3<UNUSED>
>>
>>disklabel sd0
>>   8 partition
>>	size		offset	fstype
>>   d:	4194058	0	unused
>>   e:	41766837	63	MSDOS
>>
>>If I mount -t msdos /dev/sd0e /mnt/msdos
>>At this point that's OK!!!
>>
>>Now for the second disk (sd1) with my Extended partition, and my
>>logical disks (D: E: F: G:) on it.
>>fdisk sd1
>>   NetBSD geometry cyl 7637 head 8 sect/track 274 (2192 s/tr)
>>partiton table
>>   0 sysid 15 (Ext. partition LBA)
>>      start 16065 size 16755795 (8181MB) flag 0x0
>>   1 sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>>      start 14991088 size 1749216 (854MB) flag 0x0
>>   2<UNUSED>
>>   3<UNUSED>
>>
>>disklabel sd1
>>   8 partition
>>	size		offset		fstype
>>   a:	306880		14991088	4.2BSD
>>   b:	528272		15297968	swap
>>   c:	1786127	14991088	unused
>>   d:	16777215	0		"
>>   e:	950975		15826240	4.2BSD
>>for the f: partition I have try
>>   f: 14991088-16065 16065  MSDOS
>>  mount -t msdos /dev/sd1f /msdos ==> invalid argument
>>   f: 14991088-274   274    MSDOS
>>  mount -t msdos /dev/sd1f /msdos ==> invalid argument
>>   f: 16755795	 16065	 MSDOS
>>  mount -t msdos /dev/sd1f /msdos ==> invalid argument
>
>>At this other point, that's no good !!!
>>what can I do know for seeing the logical discs?
>
>>Is Partition Magic responsive?
>
>No.  The problem is that the mbrlabel program, which generates a faked-up
>disklabel for DOS partitions, assumes a DOS-only disk.  It doesn't know
>how to work with a mixed disk, and simply overwrites all the existing
>disklabel entries.
>
>The good news is, you can use Partition Magic to get info on the starting
>sector number and length of the extended partitions (e.g. from the text-
>mode program PQMAGICT, choose a partition, the (O)ptions, (I)nfo,
>(P)artition Information).  These entries can be plugged directly into
>the disklabel (using disklabel -e), with type MSDOS.  Then mount should
>be able to pick them up.
>
>The bad news is that you have four logical disks in your extended partition,
>and only three free disklabel slots (f,g,h), so you won't be able to put
>all your drives in at once.
>
>You also have a problem in that the fdisk entry for your extended partition
>overlaps the entry for your NetBSD partition.  This may have contributed
>to the scrambling of your sd1a boot process.  If you're lucky, only the
>extended partition overlaps the NetBSD partition, and can be fixed by
>simply reentering the length.  If some of the logical drives overlap the
>NetBSD part, though, you have a more serious problem.
>
>(Partition Magic should have warned you about the overlapping partitions -
>what version are you running?)
>
>Good luck.
>
>jdarrow
>
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>
hello,
my version of PartitionMagic is 4.0
thank's.