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From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PCFS on Harddisks ?
Date: 20 Jan 1994 11:42:18 GMT
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corp, Richardson, TX USA
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In article <2hljmmINN22p@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>,
Hermann Schinagl <schinagl@fsztmss01> wrote:
>Lars Hentschke (nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
>
>: hmmm...sorry, someone told me, that i must write a DiskLabel onto DOS-disk
>: (the entire sd2 is dos.)
>: i have old documents of pcfs and i tried 'mount -t pcfs /dev/sd2a /dos'
>: where can i found the book 'step by step mounting a dos-harddisk'  ?
Try mount -t pcfs /dev/sd2d, that's the whole disk and doesn't 
require a label. (no I haven't tested this, my home is DOS-free !!!)
>
>Well, I would be very interested too ! I had a lot of trouble mounting my
>second disk, which is a MS-DOS disk, and was finally not able to manage it.
>
>		Ciao Hermann
>
Regards
	Stefan


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Stefan Grefen                          Convex Computer GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
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