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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!skatter!gregory From: gregory@skatter.usask.ca (gregory brady) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Problem mounting msdos patition Date: 16 Jan 1996 09:41:10 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4dfrrm$obn@tribune.usask.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: skatter.usask.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I can not get my ms-dos partitions to mount properly. NetBSD 1.1 reside s in a partition on my second (wd1) hard drive. I decided that the first step would be to get it to mount the dos partition on wd0. The command I thought should work is mount -t msdos /dev/wd0d /dosdrv0 This produces an "illegal argument" error. The directory /dosdrv1 exists. I thought that wd0d would be the right device to choose since fdisk /dev/rwd0d shows the correct partition information for this drive, and produces no errors. I have no problem mounting dos floppies using the command mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /dosfloppy Now, if I can get the drive that NetBSD isn't sharing with dos mounted, I want to try and get the drive that dos and NetBSD share mounted. This is my second hard drive (wd1), and dos occupies two partitions from cylinder 0 to 126 and from cylinder 127 to 381. NetBSD has the parition from cylinder 382 to 617. I haven't started trying to solve this problem yet, but any ideas on how to do this would be appreciated. Reading the man pages for mount and mount_msdos I see that NetBSD is only supposed to work reliably with dos 3.3 files systems and below. Would it be worth my while to download a Linux kernel and steal the msdos file system code from that? Is it any better? I plan on looking at the Linux kernels sometime anyway so I can get my CD-Rom drive up and running (no need doing work that's already been done). Thanks again! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Gregory Brady % % Engineering Physics Computational Science % % gregory@skatter.usask.ca grb220@mail.usask.ca % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%