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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Coexisting on the PC Message-ID: <hastyCn6psK.D5n@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2ml556$1jk@keltia.frmug.fr.net> <Mar.24.02.21.57.1994.28171@farside.rutgers.edu> <Cn6GtH.FIp@apollo.hp.com> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 19:50:44 GMT Lines: 23 In article <Cn6GtH.FIp@apollo.hp.com> sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com (Bill Sommerfeld) writes: >In article <Mar.24.02.21.57.1994.28171@farside.rutgers.edu>, >Charles Hedrick <hedrick@farside.rutgers.edu> wrote: >>I believe BSD's mread will only work with file systems in >>primary partitions.) > >That may be true, but I only use mread/mwrite with floppies (to avoid >mounts/unmounts); for my hard disk DOS partition, I created an entry >in the (BSD) disk label which corresponds to the DOS partition and use >the kernel DOS fs code. However, there should be no need to use a funky BSD label to access a DOS partition;specially, if the information is already available in the form of a DOS partition. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X