Subject: Re: Putting a disklabel on MSDOS disk (without killing partition)
To: John A. Maier - MIS dept. <johnam@mail.kemper.org>
From: Sean Clarke <sean@bxfm.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/20/1998 23:29:34
Well I am pretty sure you problem is that you aren't specififing what type
of partition it is.  It should be
mount -t msdos /dev/wd0d /mnt 
or try
mount -t ados /dev/wd0d /mnt
I am not actually sure if the msdos type will do FAT32, it does in
FreeBSD, I don't know because I don't have a FAT32 partition on my sweet
486 with NetBSD on it, but I do on my FreeBSD machine. So just try those I
guess:P

--Sean

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, John A. Maier - MIS dept. wrote:

> 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
> 
>