Subject: Re: Installation and MSDOS partitions
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Tom Backman <tom@stacken.kth.se>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/02/1998 21:09:09
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 13:22:54 -0500
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> To: "J. Buck Caldwell" <buck_c@polygon.com>
> Cc: i386 NetBSD Port Mailing List <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: Installation and MSDOS partitions 
> 
> 
> "J. Buck Caldwell" writes:
> > Is it possible to boot with a floppy, create a NetBSD partition,
> > write disklabel etc, and mount a MSDOS partition to install from?
> 
> "in theory". mount_msdos is on the disk, and msdosfs is in the kernel.
> 
It works fine, i have done it several times myself.

one thing that is handy to have is the sector numbers where your dos
partition start/ends, and make sure you have a disklabel entry that
matches the partition.

Apart from that, its only mount -t msdos /dev/<whatever> /mnt2, and
untar from there. (Or run sysinstall, even tho i havent used it yet.)

/ Tom