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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news.DataFlux.BC.CA!news.access.victoria.bc.ca!access.victoria.bc.ca!dchapman From: dchapman@access.victoria.bc.ca (David Chapman) Subject: NetBSD, MSDOS, disklabel, & newbie Organization: Access Computer Systems Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 15:58:10 GMT Message-ID: <DCHAPMAN.95Mar4075810@access.victoria.bc.ca> X-Attribution: dlc Sender: dchapman@access.victoria.bc.ca (David Chapman) Lines: 30 I have recently installed the binary i386 distribution of NetBSD on a WD2850 which was partitioned between MSDOS and NetBSD. So, desiring to access the DOS partition from NetBSD, as is in the FAQ I did 'disklabel -e -r /dev/rwd0a' and added the DOS partition as wd0h thusly: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 35280 685440 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 680 -714) b: 35280 720720 swap # (Cyl. 715 -749) c: 978768 685440 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 680 -1650) d: 1664208 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -1650) e: 10080 756000 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 750 -759) f: 10080 766080 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 760 -769) g: 888048 776160 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 770 -1650) h: 685377 63 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0*-679*) My question is: I had to call the DOS partition 'unused' where the FAQ suggested MSDOS, which disklabel rejected as it did 'msdos'. Am I going to run into grief calling the DOS partition unused? Calling the DOS partition 'msdos' in fstab worked fine. Oh yeah, it does seem to work. I can copy files between the two partitions while booted in NetBSD. Thanks, -- Dave Chapman, dchapman@access.victoria.bc.ca "tar is not a plaything" - bsimpson