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Re: mounting msdos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Kamalic)
Thu Oct 3 22:34:07 1996
From: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
To: Leonard Kimble Jr <lkimble@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 1996 21:12:58 EDT."
<199610040112.VAA00442@da-bulls.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 22:33:42 EDT
> But I tried the above and it mounted the dos partition that's on the same
> physical drive as I have netbsd. How do I mount other logical drives? and
> how do I assign a name to them (dosc, dosd, etc...)
Yes, Weaverj was in a similar situation. Greg's Dospart script is
configured to use wd0. We made a quick fix by hacking the script a bit.
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: dospart.sh,v 1.1 1996/01/27 00:23:49 ghudson Exp $
if [ $# -le 1 ]; then
disk=`mount | sed -n '/ on \/ /s|^/dev/\([^ ]*\)[^ ] .*$|\1|p'`
else
disk=$1
fi
#and so on...
Changing the disk=foo, where foo=wd1 or wd2 or whatever, seemed to do
the trick, but we encountered a problem in that our wd1 drive did
not have any netbsd partition. As of NetBSD 1.1, you cannot mount
a DOS partition of a drive that has no NetBSD partition. Make a minimal
netbsd partition on your other drive, and then try it. We weren't in
the mood to do that to Josh's machine at the time.
As far as I know, NetBSD 1.2 will support mounting of DOS
drives without a NetBSD partition on them. I think 1.2A and 1.2B already
support that.
Let me know if it works out. And if I said anything incorrect, I
hope somebody more experienced will chime in.
-Dan
