Subject: Re: How to mount ms-dos partitions?
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/27/1997 17:43:33
Andrew Gillham writes:
> > So, basically, if you don't have a BSD partition on your disk, which is the
> > case with my system, since all of my DOS/NT crap is on my slow sd0, and 
> > NetBSD is on my faster sd1, you're screwed.  The workaround presumably 
> > would be to put a small BSD partition on the disk just to hold a disklabel,
> > assuming that the disk isn't already entirely eaten up.
> 
> No, the kernel generates a fake disklabel for disks with no BSD partitions.
> A 'disklabel sd0' should show it to you.

Yeah, but if he, for instance, has that drive divided into multiple
DOS partitions, he is indeed not going to win.

Perry