Subject: Re: [Q] mount DOS/IDE w/ OS-BS?
To: Colin BRADLEY <fox@cs.mcgill.ca>
From: Eric S. Hvozda <hvozda@netcom.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/14/1995 11:09:44
On Wed, 14 Jun 1995 11:38:49 -0400 Colin BRADLEY wrote:
>
> aroo?
You call, I return...
> According to Charles Hannum in a post to current-users in March
> 1994, the procedure to mount the DOS drive involves labelling it
> with the condition that nothing else (like OS-BS) is using the
> required sectors. Looks like I'm out of luck.
>
> Is there another way to do the labelling without toasting the
> OS-BS info? Or another way to mount the drive?
If the README with OS-BS talks about how many sectors it consumes
(I'm pretty sure it does), you can just move the label in that far.
Usually you have sectors between 1 and SPT available. Surely OS-BS
isn't using more than say, 6-8 of those sectors. So just move the NetBSD
disklabel to sector 9 or 10 or so.
DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
Make sure the label and the start of DOS WILL NOT COLLIDE. Otherwise DOS
will be dust. You might want to take a tar of DOS before you do anything...