Subject: Re: Mounting DOS disks...?
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: C Kane <ckane@best.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/15/1999 16:04:48
Use "disklabel" to see what fake layout NetBSD has chosen for the
disk.  In my case I get:

ckane2 root -> disklabel sd0
disklabel: warning, DOS partition table with no valid NetBSD partition
# /dev/rsd0d:
type: SCSI
disk: DFHSS4W
  :
  :
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  d:  8813870        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 4406*)
  e:  4096512       63       MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*- 2048*)
  f:  4707045  4096575      unused        0     0         # (Cyl. 2048*- 4401*)
disklabel: boot block size 0
disklabel: super block size 0

So I do:  mount -t msdos /dev/sd0e /msdos

-- Chuck



Mason Loring Bliss writes:
>I can't seem to mount my DOS disk. Perhaps I'm going about it incorrectly,
>but I don't see any other options.
>
>ac /# mount_msdos /dev/wd0c /mnt
>mount_msdos: mount: Device not configured
>ac /# mount_msdos /dev/wd0d /mnt
>mount_msdos: mount: Invalid argument
>
>The disk has nothing but a large FAT-type partition on it. I don't believe
>there's anything special about it.