Subject: Re: How to mount ms-dos partitions?
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Matt Ragan <mragan@tivoli.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/27/1997 12:49:40
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>
>Usuario Universo Online writes:
>> I want to mount the msdos partition in the NetBSD so i can be able to
>> read from the msdos partition.
>
>As it stands right now, the "right way" to do this is to use
>disklabel(8) to set one of your BSD partitions to point to the DOS
>partition and to set the appropriate file type. You may then mount
>that device as an msdosfs partition. see mount(8) and mount_msdos(8)
>for more info on that.
>
>Perry

So, basically, if you don't have a BSD partition on your disk, which is the
case with my system, since all of my DOS/NT crap is on my slow sd0, and 
NetBSD is on my faster sd1, you're screwed.  The workaround presumably 
would be to put a small BSD partition on the disk just to hold a disklabel,
assuming that the disk isn't already entirely eaten up.

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