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mounting a hard drive that doesn't have the NetBSD partition on it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vuong P Nguyen)
Sat Feb 10 18:43:39 1996
From: Vuong P Nguyen <vpnguyen@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 18:39:37 EST
Hi,
I found these instructions on a FAQ and I was wondering if anyone could
confirm/deny that this works. If these instructions are wrong, could
someone tell me how to do it?
Assuming you don't have something (like OS-BS) which uses the extra
sectors in the boot track, you can do the following:
1) Use the NetBSD `fdisk' or DOS `pfdisk' to create a NetBSD
partition in the MBR which spans the entire disk.
2) Save a copy of the MBR:
dd if=/dev/rsd0d of=my-mbr bs=1b count=1
3) Use `disklabel' to create a NetBSD label with the DOS partition
and whatnot. Answer `y' when it asks you if you want to `overwrite
[a] disk with [a] DOS partition table'.
4) Put back the saved copy of the MBR:
dd if=my-mbr of=/dev/rsd0d bs=1b count=1
I am using a boot program, so does that completely invalidate these
instructions? If they are right, could someone elaborate on step one?
Thanks,
Vuong Nguyen
