From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 12:09:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28531 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from N2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU (N2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.250.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA28350 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:09:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Peter_Stephan@N2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU) Received: from N2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU by N2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01388; 11 Mar 98 15:08:23 EST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: pstephan@cs.cmu.edu Reply-to: pstephan@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Problems mounting extended DOS partition Date: Wed, 11 Mar 98 15:08:14 EST Message-ID: <1386.889646894@N2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I know that it shouldn't be hard, but I am unable to mount my extended DOS partition from FreeBSD. I don't have any problem mounting my primary DOS partition. Here's the message that I get when I try to mount it: # mount_msdos /dev/wd0s3 /dos mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s3: Invalid argument Here is the device entry: brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00040002 Mar 11 14:51 /dev/wd0s3 Here's what sysinstall says that I have: Disk name: wd0 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 1024 cyls/64 heads/63 sectors = 4128768 sectors Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 822465 822527 wd0s1 2 fat 6 822528 1636992 2459519 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C 2459520 1665216 4124735 wd0s3 4 extended 5 Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Peter --- Peter Stephan CMU School of Computer Science pstephan@cs.cmu.edu Research Programmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message