Subject: Re: getting to msdos partitions on drive
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/01/1996 14:07:50
> david@mono.org writes:
> > > Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how I could trick the system
> > > into giving me a way to mount the MS-DOS FAT file system partition?
> > > 
> > 	Shift the i386 port to 16 partitions per disk, or lose the
> > 	'partition d not c' braindamage?
> > 	(I believe OpenBSD has done both of these - this is not intended
> > 	as any kind of flamebait, just a point of reference)	
> 
> If anyone can submit patches to do this and they are clean I'll try to
> put them in.

Have fun --- the two of these together (plus another related change)
were significantly harder to implement than I expected.  There's bits
of hair lying on my floor.