Subject: Re: getting to msdos partitions on drive
To: Daniel J. O'Connor <doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/03/1996 13:39:16
"Daniel J. O'Connor" writes:
> > I would like to be able to mount the MS-DOS stuff under NetBSD. The
> > obvious thing to do seemed to be to set one of the partitions in the
> > label to point to the MS-DOS partition. Unfortunately, I can't do
> > that, since all my partitions (a-h) are in use. (a is root, b is swap,
> > c and d I can't touch, e is an extra large /tmp, f is /var, g is /usr,
> > and h is /u).

> Umm, you can't then :)

I know. I'm looking for a trick that doesn't require repartitioning --
perhaps a pseudodevice or some such...

Perry