On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 04:33:21AM +0000, David Holland wrote: > > In any case, there is zero chance that anything from the 80s that has > ffs on it has a MSDOS FDISK partition table. You're better off using > disklabel(8) and hoping you can find a BSD-type disklabel.
But we have compatibility support for most "foreign" label formats of that time, including SunOS, NeXT, HP/UX, and Ultrix labels. It's not all compiled into the i386 or amd64 NetBSD kernels, but with a little hacking, it can be. And failing that, you can grep around until you find the superblock. What kind of system did the old drive come from? Thor
