I would think "mount -t msdos /dev/wd0e /mnt" would work fine in this
situtaion.  You can replace the "e" in wd0e with another partition letter
like f g h if it doesn't mount.  Even though you say you've already tried
this, I would pop in the installation disks hit <ctrl-c> as soon as the
sysinst menu comes up and try to mount your msdos partition *before* doing
anything in sysint.  This will make it easier on you then seting up all
your paritions and having the installation fail (been there... done that
).  Dual-booting is allways difficult and painfull!  Especially when you
only have one computer.  Because your gonna have to switch back and forth
between both operating systems over and over and over and over.......

-cosmic-665

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, David Walker wrote:

> I have an existing Windoze installation. I have downloaded most of NetBSD
> 1.5.1 to my windows system (weird but all the ftp sites I went to had empty
> xfonts, man, and misc folders).
> I used MS fdisk to partition my drive into 3 partitions but I left empty
> space and used NetBSD boot program to partition the fourth as NetBSD. I also
> used sysinst to change one of the partitions to MSDOS. It recognises all
> partitions and shows their filesystem and size correctly.
> According to the sysinst report: 0 is FAT32 (my windows partition).
> 1 is MSDOS & 2 Is my Extended Windows partition. And 4 for my NetBSD partition.
> Disklabel basically shows what my sysinst table tells me, 0,1,2,3 and
> corresponding cylinder, sector, etc. info.
> I made my boot floppies and used them, all pretty easy until I get to
> locating my tgz files on my windows partition. I presume I need to specify
> they are located on an unmounted fs and so choose the appropriate option. I
> have an IDE drive so change device to wd0. I tried many combinations of
> filesystem and directory all to no avail.
> I eventually moved the NetBSD files to the MSDOS partition I created with
> sysinst as I imagined my problem was the inability of NetBSD to recognise
> FAT32. The only way I could get windows to recognise the MSDOS partition and
> let me move the files from windows to it was to format the MSDOS partition
> (using the DOS command format).
> No problem, the kern, etc. are on the MSDOS partition.
> I still can't get sysinst to locate them.
> When I get to locating my kern, etc. I have 2 options, install from an
> 'unmounted fs' or 'local directory'.
> Do you know what the correct syntax is for completing this step? I presume I
> am correct in choosing unmounted fs. I presume I am correct in choosing wd0
> as the device. I presume I am correct in choosing MSDOS as the filesystem.
> Choosing 'unmounted fs' I get 3 options to set: device (presumably the drive
> name), filesystem (presumably MSDOS or ffs or ?), directory (presumably the
> location within the drive). The default for device is sd0, as I have IDE I
> set this to wd0. As my files are on my MSDOS partition I set filesystem to
> MSDOS. The files are in the root directory so I merely set /.
> For device I have tried wd0, wd0a through wd0g, hda1 through hda5, ad0s1
> through ad0s5. For filesystem i have tried MSDOS, DOS, FAT. I have tried an
> extremely large amount of directory structures.
> I have tried specifying which partition in the device option and in the directory option
> using DOS and what limited knowledge of Unix syntax I have.
> However, because my MSDOS partition is recognised by disklabel perhaps it is already mounted.
> So maybe instead of 'unmounted fs' I should choose 'local directory'.
> If I choose local directory and presume that sysinst can access an MSDOS
> partition then all I need to specify is a directory. I have
> tried a large amount of variations with no success.
> I wish I knew what to type as the path to the root directory of my MSDOS partition.
> Oh, by the way, can anyone tell me where I can find info on the difference
> between the generic and generic_diagnostic installs?
>
> Best Wishes,
> David Walker
> diw@tpg.com.au
> websupport@ntw.com.au
>