Re: about harddisk installing!

[Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu>]

Thorsten Glaser <tygs@netcologne.de> writes:
> begin  electrogrammati illius Marcus Watts
> >and truely do not have a "wd0i".  You should not have needed to say
> >"mount -t msdos" - if you don't specify a type, mount is normally
> >able to infer this from the partition information -- in this case,
> 
> Has never worked for me since 2_9_BASE. I always have to
> use mount_msdos, on boot floppies and on installed system.

Er, no?  Then it's a bug.  Or something.  Does "disklabel" report
"unknown" or "msdos" for fstype for that partition?  If it's "msdos"
then the code path mount should use to get this is wrong, and that
should be easy to fix.  If "unknown", then however that got set is
wrong; that came from disklabel, which means either the original
default label from the kernel that disklabel started with is wrong (a
bug), or you told it "unknown" when you made wd0i (and the resulting
behavior is a feature.)  If the disklabel is wrong, then fixing the
disklabel should make the problem go away.  Or if you're saying that
"mount -t msdos" doesn't work (a bug), I haven't seen that problem, but
that doesn't mean it's not there.

On an installed system, I put stuff in /etc/fstab that says to do the
msdos thing, which should override the label (and means I can just say
"mount /dos".)

					-Marcus Watts