Subject: Re: MSDOS partitions
To: None <mgandalf@ptd.net>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/08/1996 01:44:14
(PS - Could you please configure your mailer to not use quoted-printable
unless necessary?  Thank you).

>This is something that is really bugging me.  I have a 50meg SCSI disk o=
>n
>/dev/sd1 that I wish to format as MSDOS and mount under NetBSD for use w=
>ith
>Wine.  Now, I have tried WITH and WITHOUT a disklabel on sd1 and yet eve=
>rytime
>I attempt to mount I get "msdos: mount: Operation not supported by devic=
>e".  I
>haven't the slightest clue what that means.  disklabel shows two partiti=

First off, you should never call mount_msdos directory.  You should be
saying something like "mount -t msdos ...".

Do you have MSDOSFS configured into your kernel?  It looks like that could
be the problem.

--Ken