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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!think.com!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!stepsun.uni-kl.de!sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de!sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de!andrick From: andrick@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Ulf Andrick [Biologie]) Subject: Mtools to manipulate C: (386BSD) Message-ID: <1992Oct6.015744.10034@rhrk.uni-kl.de> Sender: news@rhrk.uni-kl.de Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:57:44 GMT Lines: 24 In order to get mdir to work I recompiled it. After that I was able to do mdir A: and mdir B: successfully, but mdir C: still doesn't work, though I set up a partition wd0d via disklabel, which should correspond to my MS-DOS partition, which is the first on the disc. My DOS partition table says that the partition begins with offset 35 (2nd track) and I tried that as offset for the wd0d partion as well as 0. But the result is always mdir complaining that it can't initialise the disc and suspecting it is a non-MS-DOS disc. Apparently, my recompilation was in so far successful, as there isn't a message about overlapping with active partitions anymore. Before, it probably had used wd0c, which comprises both of my BSD partitions. As I don't know C I have difficulties with interpreting the source code and finding out what Mtools expect how the partition is formatted. So I would appreciate some help. (I'm also interested in the German kezboard question posed by someone else.) -- Ulf R. Andrick andrick@rhrk.uni-kl.de FB Biologie - Tierphysiologie Universitaet Was du nicht selber weiszt, D-W 6750 Kaiserslautern das muszt du dir erklaeren (Tegtmeier)