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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:55:58 -0500
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To: Chris <cje@idmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Mounting MS-DOS partition.
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:28:11PM -0800, Chris wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am trying to mount an MSDOS partition in order to copy some of the
> distribution files onto it as I will be using it while setting up some
> FreeBSD displays for a computer store.  However, I got the following error
> in sysinstall (when I have it look for packages on that disk) and when I try
> to manually mount it.
> 
> Please advise,
> 
>                         -Chris England
> 
> root@freebsd /mnt>mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 wd0s1
> mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s1: Invalid argument
> 
> (I tried mount -t dos /dev/wd0s1 wd0s1 as well)
> 
> root@freebsd /mnt>fdisk /dev/wd0s1
> ******* Working on device /dev/wd0s1 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=985 heads=16 sectors/track=52 (832 blks/cyl)
> 
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=985 heads=16 sectors/track=52 (832 blks/cyl)
> 
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 1 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 2 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>         beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
>         end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255

Seems quite clear that there is no slice 1 on this disk (wd0s1). There
is only a FreeBSD partition, no MSDOS partition.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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