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From: jkh@morse.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ANy way to mount full MS-DOS drive?
Date: 26 May 1994 02:00:38 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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In-reply-to: erich@teal.csn.org's message of Wed, 25 May 1994 15:59:59 GMT

In article <CqD8G0.H74@csn.org> erich@teal.csn.org (Eric Hilfer) writes:

   Is there any way I can put a FreeBSD disk label onto the IDE drive without
   adding a partition for FreeBSD?  Will that allow me to mount the IDE drive
   as a pcfs file system from FreeBSD?  I don't really want to take any space

Yeah, you can just make a tiny fake freebsd partition that spans
sectors 2-17, since they're not generally used by DOS!  Then you can
pop your disklabel in there that points to the actual DOS partition.

Do this _carefully_ with FreeBSD's fdisk command..

					Jordan