Subject: Re: fat32 and mouse for left-haned
To: woo jin jeon <wjjeon@telecom.samsung.co.kr>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/14/2000 06:52:11
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, woo jin jeon wrote:

>     mouse - i want to make the 3 button mouse of mine  changed to the
> left-handed

xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

>           wd0 : no disklabel    (only win98 lives on this disc)
>           boot device : wd1
> 
>     i'd ever disklabeled wd0 to "dos 16 bit >32meg" then, what happened
> to me ?
> 
>     .. win98 had gone with my all data!   its fat32 file system was
> changed to fat16

Ouch!
 
>     does disklabel support "dos 32 bit >32meg", that is, fat32 ?

Absolutely. It's just that there's no good place to put the disklabel
when there's no NetBSD partition, so trying to disklabel a Windows
disk probably corrupted some critical area.

Try, instead, the trick described in mbrlabel(8).


Frederick