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From: llunch@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu (Jason Baker)
Subject: Re: msdos on Hard Disks?
Message-ID: <1994Jun29.041719.12575@news.csuohio.edu>
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Organization: Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 04:17:19 GMT
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In article <199406220005.CAA04884@keltia.frmug.fr.net> roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) writes:
>In article <2u5akn$i8l@cs.ubc.ca>, Terry Coatta <coatta@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>The man page for pcfs(5) states that PCFS support is only available for
>>floppy drives.  I've scanned over the archives for this newsgroup and
>>haven't seen anything to indicate that this has changed and I am wondering
>>if it is still the case? (I'm using 1.1-RELEASE)
>
>No,  it not the case   any more. You  can  mount your primary DOS partition
>providing that you have a label entry for it.
	Is this also possible with netbsd?  Using "disklabel -e -r wd0,"
I add my dos partion, disklabel gives me a warning about an unused
partion, and mount says: "msdos: device not configured."  So, I go
back into disklabel and adjust partion c to include the msdos partion.
When I exit, it asks if I want to overwrite the dos partion
information, and I say no.  This happens with netbsd 0.9 and current
circa May 2.

	thanks,
	Jason