> mount -t msdos /dev/whatever_disk_and_partition /mnt
> 
> Should mount it.  however, the whatever_disk_and_partition argument must be
> the MSDOS partition described on the NetBSD disklabel on that hard disk.
> What this means is that you need to disklabel that hard drive.  This is
> pretty dangerous because you could potentially write over the MSDOS
> partition information, and make it unusable to MSDOS w/o a reformat.

You need not write the disklabel to the drive. You can disklabel the
drive and in the process set only the kernel's "in-memory" copy of the
label for the disk. This is not (as) dangerous.

	-- Robert Kennedy