Excerpts from internet.computing.netbsd.port-i386: 28-Jul-96 Re: Please,
I still need he.. by Jack Patton@intserv.com 
>  I am a NetBSD-1.0A user who has been wrestling with this problem. I had 
> been told - or read on this list - that 1.2 will let you mount MS-DOS 
> partitions without having to fiddle with a disklabel.
[...]
>  I grabbed the ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/netbsd-other 
> kernel and rebooted specifying that kernel in the boot - and it worked! 
[...]
>  Anyway, aside from ps and w being busted (easy enough to fix), I was 
> able to mount and copy a file from my DOS partition (Actually Winsloth 
> 95). I was not brave enough, however to attempt to write to it. 
>  My next step will probably be to just grab the kernel source and 
> fashion my own - I am waiting for a new HD to do a full upgrade.
>  Anyway, give it a shot and don't even think about giving me a problem if 
> it fries your data or something. It worked for me :)


    Does anybody know if this requires a certain option to be defined in
the config file?  I'm running 1.2_BETA, supped as of 7/12/96, and can't
get this to work, but I'm not sure if what I'm trying to do is the same
thing.
    Basically, I have two drives, a 250MB Quantum at wd0 and a 1GB
Conner at sd0.  wd0 is (almost) purely MSDOS, with a 1MB NetBSD
partition at the front (right after OS-BS).  sd0 is purely NetBSD.  I'd
like to be able to mount wd0, but have never been able to.  Normally, it
complains about there being no disklabel on wd0.  But whenever I've set
a disklabel, even though there is a 1MB NetBSD partition, it writes the
disklabel at the very beginning and clobbers OS-BS and the DOS partition
table.

    Is there a kernel option that lets it work without a label, or can
anyone tell me how to get the disklabel to go on the NetBSD partition
and not at the very start of the drive?

    Thanks in advance.

                                                          Will Ferry

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