From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 6: 3:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linus.apk.net (akela.apk.net [199.18.253.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DD214D4B for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 06:03:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from englehar@apk.net) Received: from snoopy (snoopy [207.54.185.3]) by linus.apk.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA00276 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 23:04:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from englehar@apk.net) Message-ID: <002601bed581$402a3d00$03b936cf@apk.net> From: "Matthew Englehart" To: Subject: problems mounting msdos partition Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 23:04:31 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG With 2.2.8: Here is the relevant line from /etc/fstab: /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos r 2 2 When I type "mount /dos" I get the error message: fstab: /etc/fstab:6: Inappropriate file type or format fstab: /etc/fstab:6: Inappropriate file type or format mount: /dos: unknown special file or file system However, when I type mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos everything is fine; e.g. I can ls /dos Any idea why the first way doesn't work? Mounting of /dos also fails during the OS boot. Thanks, Matt Englehart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message