Subject: Re: Mounting, compiling, & driver writing
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. <drk@shore.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/01/1997 16:01:45
>> >First you need to know which partition is which. Your partition 0 is most
>> >likely going to be /dev/sd?a, where ? is the number which gets mapped to
>> >your hard drive at boot time. To see where the other partitions get
>> >mapped to, do a:
>> >
>> >disklabel sd?
>> >
>>
>> When I do this, I get:
>>
>> disklabel: /dev/rsd?: No such file or directory
>>
>> (When I boot netBSD, the boot volume is sd0a)
>
>You really did disklabel /dev/sd0c, didn't you?
>
??? No. Should I have? I did:
disklabel sd?
>> so I forgot, in the list above, about the swap partition. The map is
>>actually:
>>
>> 0 UNIX root & usr 200 Meg
>> 1 UNIX boot 80 Meg
>> 2 UNIX usr 200 Meg
>> 3 Mac boot vol 200 Meg
>> 4 Mac vol 200 Meg
>> 5 Mac v0l <200 Meg
>
>UNIX boot? Is that the swap partition?
>
Oops! Sorry, I am so spoiled by the Mac cutting & pasting that I can't type
any more!
The 80 Meg partition is of course the boot partition.
>
>Check out the Red Book, the Design & Implimentataion of BSD 4.4. Note,
>I'm paraphrasing the title. It gives a good overview, and helps make
>sens of some of the things going on. But you'll still need the source.
>
Will do. Thanks again.
Dan Killoran