From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 12:26:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08092 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08037 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA15764; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:26:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jeff Rogers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about disklabel and post install configuration In-Reply-To: <199808020816010430.0012031E@mail.soltec.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Jeff Rogers wrote: > I have installed version 2.2.6 on a sys. w/ Win 95, one hard drive > dedicated to fbsd. I want to be able to mount the DOS partition. But > during install, I did not label that partition with an "m". I have a > couple of questions about this. I don't understand what you're referring to. > 1) Is it necessary to label the DOS partition "mountable" as with an m? No. > 2) If I go back with /stand/sysinstall and use disklabel, & label that > partition with an m will it do any damage to my installation or that > hard drive/data on which Win 95 resides? This is only if you want to have the system auto-mount the DOS partition on bootup. You can always do it manually using mount, or edit /etc/fstab and add it to the list. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message