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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: braven@oskar.demon.co.uk (Brian Raven) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!warwick!qmw-dcs!qmw!demon!oskar.demon.co.uk!braven Subject: Re: Mtools still won't access HD : -( Reply-To: braven@oskar.demon.co.uk References: <9317917.18572@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <summer.741309166@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU> Distribution: world X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.35 $ Organization: B. F. Raven Limited Lines: 20 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 21:11:07 +0000 Message-ID: <741413667snx@oskar.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <summer.741309166@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU> summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield) writes: > C /dev/wd0d 16 0 0 0 > > (my DOS partition is first on the disk, so the whole disk partition, without > an offset should be OK, right?) Afraid not, the first thing on the disk is the boot sector. If you use pfdisk, it will tell you exactly where you DOS partition is. Use this information to create a partition entry with disklabel, which you then refer to in /etc/mtools. I'm not sure if this is the only way to do it, but its what I did and it seems to work fine. Cheers, Brian Raven | B. F. Raven Limited Phone: +44 (0)707 269857 | 26C Homestead Road, Hatfield, Herts., email: braven@oskar.demon.co.uk | AL10 0QW Quote for today: The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Mark Twain