Hi All,

Running NetBSD 1.5_BETA2 on a Compaq M300 laptop, dual booting with Win2k...

I'm trying to mount the NTFS partition [onto /mnt] whilst running under NetBSD.
The question is what to use as the 'special device', for the mount command.
Since the laptop has a single IDE drive and I currently use 'fdisk -a' to change
the active partition and thus select which partition to boot on next power-up [0
is Win2k, 1 is NetBSD], then /dev/wd0 seems to relate only to 'areas' within the
NetBSD 'partition'. Is there a [or can I create] a special device file for areas
of the hard disk that are not within the NetBSD partition ?

relevant [?] info:
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fdisk

NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1022 heads: 240 sectors/track: 63 (15120 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 7 (OS/2 HPFS or NTFS or QNX2 or Advanced UNIX)
    start 63, size 16783137 (8194 MB), flag 0x0
     beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
     end: cylinder 1023, head 239, sector 63
1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 16794288, size 6784848 (3312 MB), flag 0x80
     beg: cylinder 1023, head 176, sector  1
     end: cylinder 1023, head 111, sector 63
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>

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cat /etc/fstab

/dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/wd0e /usr ffs rw 1 2
/kern /kern kernfs rw

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disklabel wd0

# /dev/rwd0d:
type: unknown
disk: mydisk
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 23579136
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0       # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0   # microseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:   567504 16794288     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 16661 - 17223)
  b:  1050336 17361792       swap                        # (Cyl. 17224 - 18265)
  c:  6784848 16794288     unused        0     0         # (Cyl. 16661 - 23391)
  d: 23579136        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 23391)
  e:  5167008 18412128     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 18266 - 23391)

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df

Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a      274519   133338   127455    51%    /
/dev/wd0e     2498738   450948  1922853    18%    /usr
kernfs              1        1        0   100%    /kern

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TIA,

Pete Vickers