From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 1 10:03:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02372 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 10:03:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from Clifford.LiveNet.Net (root@Clifford.LiveNet.Net [206.156.5.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02355 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 10:03:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from samantha (Earthquake.Stormer.LiveNet.Net [206.156.5.144]) by Clifford.LiveNet.Net (8.7.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA09929 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 13:09:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199702011809.NAA09929@Clifford.LiveNet.Net> From: "Joseph I. Arias" To: Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 13:05:43 -0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk JA> I have Win95 installed in my computer, but I'm booting the system from the JA> boot disk that I made with rawrite boot4.flp and I also tried boot.flp. JW>The latter is unimportant -- but Win95 certainly is. I assume you're JW>using this dreaded VFAT filesystem then. Sorry to say, but our MSDOS JW>filesystem code is not yet up to this. I Formated my hard drive and only installed dos 6.22 and have removed Windows 95 complety from my system and again I get the same error message. Error mounting /dev/wd1s2 on /dos: invalid argument (22) JW>Good news: FreeBSD 2.2 doesn't use the msdosfs for installation, but a JW>private library instead. This should at least allow installing from a JW>VFAT filesystem, even though you still can't mount it in Unix JW>afterwards (but the mtools package can export or import files there). Should I download FreeBSD 2.2? I'm a beginger to Unix is 2.2 stable enough for me to pratic on? I'm wanting to start up my own ISP using BSD it was a recomendation for the ISP now he runs it and I have gotten use to it. Thanks Joe