Hi All,

Well, I got my scsi hard disk formatted and
partitioned without much of an issue.  Thank you
Michal for pointing me to those directions! They
really helped!  As for the zip, I haven't tried
anything yet on it, so if anyone has more info about
working with a zip on NetBSD, please let me know.

Anyway, I was wondering, since I need this disk
mounted everytime I turn the computer on, if there was
a way to get the disk automatically mounted during the
boot process.  Also, can I assign a different
directory besides /mnt when I mount the disk?

Thanks,
J Silverman
--- Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
wrote:
> JS [Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:51:59PM -0800]:
> > Since it is working, I would like to format the
> scsi
> > hard drive and the iomega zip drive I have
> attached to
> > it so NetBSD would recognize them as usual hard
> > drives. How would I go about doing that?
> 
> Please check chapter 24.8. "Adding a new hard disk"
> of NetBSD Guide for
> general clues about adding new hard drives to your
> system.
> 
> 	http://netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-misc.html#id3041601
> 	
> Want it faster? Consider "softdep" and "noatime"
> options to mount(8) (read
> the man page before using, as usual).
> 	
> About the ZIP... You can propably use FFS on them,
> but I'd format it to
> FAT32, just to make sure they'll be readable on
> non-NetBSD systems. You can
> use "mtools" package from pkgsrc to do that (the
> command is called "mformat"
> - mtools generally should handle MS-DOS filesystems
> and their derivates, but
> I'm not quite sure if they have support for FAT32, I
> checked them long time
> ago). And, as always, make sure you've got msdosfs
> in your kernel enabled.
> For generic instructions about kernel recompilation,
> check the NetBSD Guide.
> 
> Take care,
> -- 
> Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl

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