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From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter)
Subject: Re: I can't mount DOS (on sd0) from my BSD sd1 disk!
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Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 01:22:33 GMT
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Dave Burgess (burgess@s069.infonet.net) wrote:
: In article <2t3lno$i8p@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>,
: James Miller <millerj@sulaco.OES.ORST.EDU> wrote:
: >
: >/dev/sd0a / ufs rw 0 1
: >/dev/sd1a /tmp ufs rw 0 3
: >/dev/sd1d /usr ufs rw 0 2
: >/dev/sd1b swap swap rw 0 0
: >/dev/sd0d /dos msdos rw 0 4
: The trick wasn't that you put it in your fstab. It was that you
: specified the semantics of the mount correctly.
: In SysV, when you want to talk to the entire, unlabeled drive, you can
: use /dev/sd0. This is equivalent to our /dev/sd0d or /dev/sd0c
: (depending on whether you want to talk to the entire (unlabelled)
: drive, or the the BSD portion only).
: In the original example, the mount was "mount -t msdos /dev/sd0 /c" or
: something similar. While this is logically correct, the correct syntax
: would be "/dev/sd0d" instead of "/dev/sd0". It should be possible to
: link sd0 and sd0d together in the /dev directory, but the traditional
: way for us to do this is simply specify the unlabeled (sd0d) partition.
HMmmm. I tried the mount with /dev/sd0d (it is true that I was
originally trying /dev/sd0). I also tried using sd0a, sd0c, and sd0e.
No good. Someone sent email telling me that I had to tweak the
partition table with fdisk. I tried that. I used fdisk to create a
"zero length" (start and stop on cyl 0) "A5" 386bsd partition in the
#1 slot. (a "big DOS" partition being in teh #0 slot.) This did
absolutely no good. (thankfully, it didn't do any harm either. :-)
Someone *else* sent mail telling me I had to slap a disklabel on the
sd0 (DOS) disk. Thanks to the senders of these tidbits. However,
neither message was too detailed, so I was winging it with fdisk and I
am, frankly, afraid to slap a disklabel on the DOS (sd0) disk for
fear of blasting the DOS bootblock. (Further, I really do want to get
it right the first time; the data is backed up, but it's all on
floppy... :-(
If anyone could hold my hand (or point to documentation) I'd really be
appreciative. Thanks. :-)
(also, where's the FAQ? The one posted here a few days ago was a mess
on my site...)
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