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From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
Subject: Mounting DOS partitions and drives.
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 12:48:59 GMT
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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.