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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!boulder!cnsnews!spot.Colorado.EDU!frechett From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) Subject: Mounting DOS partitions and drives. Message-ID: <CIA8xn.67v@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU> Sender: usenet@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU (Net News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: spot.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 12:48:59 GMT Lines: 41 I've got the minimal netbsd-0.9 setup on my machine currently. Basically finshed with the install, mread a few things like vi and mount_msdos over and that's it. This is what I'd like to do to make my life much simpler. Mount wd1a (aka D:) and read the distribution files directly off that instead of having to buy another 20 floppies. My setup is the following: dx2/66 Maxtor 345 and Maxtor 125 I've got the 345 split down the middle. 170 megs to DOS, 175 Megs to NetBSD in that order. I plan to format the slow 125 for netbsd when I go to upgrade to current. In the meantime I'd like to mount wd1. I've tried mount_msdos /dev/wd1a /dos (yes.. /dos exists) and mount -t msdos /dev/wd1a /dos and they both give me (paraphrased) No label found. Invalid Argument I have no problem mounting /dev/fd0a or fd1a disklabel seems to think everything is either busy or completely fried (including fd0/1) and thus hasn't done me much good. Is there a trick to this or am what I'm trying to do impossible? In the future I'd also like to be able to mount the DOS partition on the C: drive as well, but from what I can tell wd0a points directly to the netbsd partition. The man pages for mount_msdos, mount, and disklabel are less than helpful. I'm going through all this trouble because I'm a long way from the net and the cheapest and most convient way to get the distribution files to my machine is via modem. ian P.S. What's a good boot manager? I'm currently running a DOS disk with my C: autoexec.bat/config.sys etc.. for dos but it's slower.