Subject: Re: How do I mount a small hard drive w/ MS-DOS file system?
To: Paul Apprich <psapp@terra.cnct.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/07/1998 09:27:04
> 
> 	I got the HOWTO on net-booting a VS3100-m76. However, I am having
> a B---- of a time getting the i386 base files onto what will be the
> bootserver, a 386sx 33 MHz box.  After messing with five 1200KB floppies,
> catting and getting nothing but format violations upon gunzip, I need to
> mount a 20MB hard drive w/ MS-DOS to copy over the file(s). I tried
> "mount_msdos -m 777 /dev/wd1a /spare-hdd", but I get "device not
> configured. This is what made me shelve this project for over a year. 
> WHat am I not doing?
> 
There is probably very impossible to mount a DOS hard disk under
NetBSD/vax. First; msdosfs isn't compiled into the generic kernel,
second; NetBSD/vax does not understand any DOS partition tables.
I don't know anything about DOS filesystems, but i do not think 
it can be done easy.

-- Ragge