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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: rpritz@panix.com (richard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0: someone please fix mount_pcfs Date: 18 Aug 1994 10:15:06 -0400 Organization: usenet central Lines: 18 Message-ID: <32vqda$oe5@panix2.panix.com> References: <32uvui$dov@Venus.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael Borowiec (mikebo@MCS.COM) wrote: : It would be nice if mount_pcfs would mount a DOS partition from a : DOS only hard disk (one without a UNIX disk label). I have two SCSI : drives, one exclusively FreeBSD and the other exclusively DOS. : Depending on which OS I want to run, I simply swap SCSI ID 0 and 1 : and re-boot. Having used a boot manager for quite some time, and : having trashed and re-built my DOS partition more times than I care : to remember, IMHO this is a much better solution. while it is not that hard to disklabel a dos only drive, you are absolutely right. if other os's can do it (including linux), why can't freebsd read a drive without requiring that the drive be disklabeled? seems like a hassle for users, with no particular gain. what are we missing? btw, there is a small gap on your drive before the beginning of dos. the disklabel can be placed in the gap. use fdisk to check where dos begins.