Date: 21 Oct 1999 15:23:41 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from dos problem Message-ID: <86k8ognbqq.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Jean-Mark Dupoux's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 1999 04:50:25 %2B0100" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910191038010.19662-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <380E8D80.812946B3@dupx.freeserve.co.uk>
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Jean-Mark Dupoux <jeanm@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> I put 40 mb for </>, 91mb <swap> and 30mb </var> on wd0s1, and 856 mb
> </usr> on wd0s4 in the labelling screen.
>
> Unfortunately when it came to the install, I got hit by the same near
> instantaneous error message:
>
> > "error mounting /dev/wd0s3 on /dist : invalid argument (22)"
>
Maybe I am all wrong here, but shouldn't that be a FreeBSD `partition' and not
a slice? I mean, something like:
error mounting /dev/wd0s3a on /dist : invalid argument (22)
When, during the installation you're making the partitions for FreeBSD, there
are two stages AFAIK.
1. Create the BSD `slices', with the correct slice type.
This should give you the /dev/wd0s3 thing with a slice type of 165.
2. Enter the disklabel editor and create the proper partitions.
This will let you create /dev/wd0s3a, /dev/wd0s3b, etc.
Trying to mount /dev/wd0s3 as a BSD partition is probably going to fail
because `mounting' makes sense only for partitions and this is a slice.
Perhaps you did not specify correctly the mount points in the disklabel
editor? I can't think of something else right now...
--
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]
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