Subject: Re: Installing from dos-formatted ZIP drive
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/27/1996 13:15:46
>On Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:48:28 -0500  martin.loeffler@utoronto.ca wrote:
>> 
>> Now, in the FAQs I've noticed mention made of enabling the kernel for
>> 'MSDOSFS'. Is there something I yet need to do to the kernel to support
>> this?
>
>Yes, you need a disklabel on the drive where MS-D0G lives and then
>you need to add the partition info for MS-D0G to the disklabel
>(I use 'disklabel -e' myself).  This might be some aid to you; Ken
>Hornstein posted this awhile back; (Ken do you have a more up to date
>copy of this document?)

I would say that nearly all of that note is still relevant.  The only part
I see that's wrong is that I think nowadays you _have_ to put MS-DOS as
the partition type in the disklabel if you want to mount it.

--Ken