On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> So I have a machine with a single 4 gig drive. The first 500 megs or
> so are a Win95/MS-DOS FAT partition -- the rest is NetBSD.
> 
> I would like to be able to mount the MS-DOS stuff under NetBSD. The
> obvious thing to do seemed to be to set one of the partitions in the
> label to point to the MS-DOS partition. Unfortunately, I can't do
> that, since all my partitions (a-h) are in use. (a is root, b is swap,
> c and d I can't touch, e is an extra large /tmp, f is /var, g is /usr,
> and h is /u).
> 
> Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how I could trick the system
> into giving me a way to mount the MS-DOS FAT file system partition?
> 
	Shift the i386 port to 16 partitions per disk, or lose the
	'partition d not c' braindamage?
	(I believe OpenBSD has done both of these - this is not intended
	as any kind of flamebait, just a point of reference)	

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