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