Subject: Re: Ramdisk & MSDOS file system
To: Unice, Kyle <kyle.unice@intel.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/22/2001 14:30:58
At 02:22 PM 2/22/2001 -0800, Unice, Kyle wrote:
>It appears that when one declares a memory based disk and then tries to
>mount it using the msdos file system, that the mounting expects to see a
>formatted DOS volume with an appropriate boot block... This makes sense
>unless you are running a ramdisk as your first and only disk drive ( at
>least for now ).  Is there a standard procedure for formating a MSDOS volume
>created on a ramdisk ?  I didn't see an entry point for such in the MSDOS
>vfs code.

once needs to create it first and then place in the kernel using
mdsetimage.  newfs_msdos shoud be able to make you one.
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