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Re: mounting a hard drive that doesn't have the NetBSD partition on it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jhawk@MIT.EDU)
Sat Feb 10 21:57:35 1996
From: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 21:53:32 -0500
To: vpnguyen@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Meta-comment: Perhaps people who are only speculating on answers could wait
until people with real answers have answered the question rather than just
jumping out with the first thing that comes to mind? Perhaps I'm just a
little silly, so perhaps I should be ignored.
Anyway:
It's worth noting that you'd need to repeat this procedure each time
you wanted to mount the disk, and that seems like WAY overkill. You
should try and do what ghudson suggested (we've had this discussion
in the past).
Using FIPS is guarantted to work, at the cost of a partition on your
original disk, and perhaps a feeling of uncleanliness (you neglected
to use the purests "bestest" solution. OTOH, the other solution might
be harder to get working. Depends on how much you want to hack it.
--jhawk
