Subject: Putting a disklabel on MSDOS disk (without killing partition)
To: 'netbsd-help' <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: John A. Maier - MIS dept. <johnam@mail.kemper.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/20/1998 16:55:47
I have just helped a friend put NetBSD on a machine and I am embarrassed.

He has a 2ndary drive with MSDOS (95) on it using Fat32.

I cannot mount it via the mount -t /dev/wd0d /mnt that I am use to.

Do I/we need to put a need to put a NetBSD disklabel on it?

It's been a long time since I did this (3 years) and the man page is and
isn't helpful.  I actually got to a point where I was just about to get that
&#@! label on the disk and it asked me if I was sure I wanted to delete the
entire drive!

Another question, is there a more interactive method of putting a disklabel
on a drive?

jam