Subject: Re: Help Installing Netbsd1.4 from linux ext2fs
To: None <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
From: Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/15/1999 11:17:41
>>>>> "Thilo" == Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> writes:

Thilo> AFAIK Linux uses DOS style partition tables but NetBSD uses
Thilo> disklabels.  There's some magic that can create an in-core
Thilo> disklabel automatically, but IIRC this works only for primary
Thilo> DOS partitions.

Thilo> You can try it with "disklabel wd0" If it shows two partitions
Thilo> (d and e), you may try to mount the e partition.  If this
Thilo> doesn't work, you can still create a disklabel manually.

Does mbrlabel(8) work with ext2fs partitions?

Chris

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