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Re: mount another hd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Feb 26 17:33:52 1996

To: Bryan W Che <bryanche@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 1996 17:22:28 EST."
             <199602262222.RAA00366@pigtail.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 17:29:48 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> I have netbsd running off a second hard drive.  Is there a way that
> I can mount my dos partition from my first hard drive under netbsd?

The only known method of doing this is to use FIPS to slightly shrink
the size of your DOS partition (by a megabyte, say), create a NetBSD
partition in the empty space, fighting with disklabel a bit to get
around its brokenness regarding new drives, and then running the
dospart script.


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