From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 31 07:56:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA28244 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:56:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from canario.fiscodata (root@[200.255.244.56]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA28239 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:56:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from paulo (paulo.fiscodata [192.168.0.18]) by canario.fiscodata (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22512; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 13:58:36 GMT Message-ID: <32F1F954.794BDF32@sul.com.br> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 13:53:24 +0000 From: Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade Organization: FiscoData X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Wunsch CC: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Error Message References: <199701310138.UAA13811@Clifford.LiveNet.Net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > As Joseph wrote: > > > Hi I downloaded all of release 2.1.6 into my DOS disk e:\freebsd and I > > tried to do the DOS partition install but it keeps giving me this error: > > > > Error mounting /dev/wd1s2 on /DOS invalid argument 22 > > What kind of DOS filesystem is it? The DOS filesystem code of FreeBSD > (which is known to be a little rusty) doesn't seem to recognize it as > a valid DOS filesystem. That's what the `invalid argument' stands > for. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Should be: FreeBSD - DOG /dev/wd1s5 - D: /dev/wd1s6 - E: With FreeBSD 2.1.0 I cant see a way to select these devices, as a DOS partition install. I remember, when I was so new to Unix, and installed FreeBSD 2.0, I had the option to choose a device, but looks like now you must use your imagination :(. -- **** Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade - fisco.dev@sul.com.br **** --------------------------------------------------------------- **** The daemon is Free ****