From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 13:46:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 13:46:45 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A943C37B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:46:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Switch-2.1.0/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id eB8LkgU12739; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:46:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:46:41 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: Tim McMillen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vnconfig question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you create your image using the slice instead of the disk device, does that make it any easier? (note, I haven't tried this myself as I generally don't have sliced or MSDOS disks on my machines) Ie: dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=maxtorbackup2 Ken On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Tim McMillen wrote: > Ok I mount it like this: (I included the wrong ways in case that tells > somebody something) > tim# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1 /mnt > msdos: /dev/ad1: Invalid argument > tim# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1c /mnt > msdos: /dev/ad1c: Invalid argument > tim# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt > tim# ls /mnt > CONFIG.SYS IO.SYS NANSI.SYS QBASIC AUTOEXEC.BAT > etc. > > I created the image exactly as above in my message, > tim# dd if=/dev/ad1 of=maxtorbackup2 > > But I still get: > tim# vnconfig /dev/vn0s1 ./maxtorbackup2 > tim# mount_msdos /dev/vn0s1 /mnt > mount_msdos: /dev/vn0s1: Invalid argument To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message