Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:16:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu> Cc: Roddie Hasan <roddie@ki.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting an extended partition.. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960916161516.20565A-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199609161427.JAA17592@night.primate.wisc.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Paul DuBois wrote: > >I have just received FreeBSD 2.1.5 on CDROM in the mail. > > > >During installation, when I was trying to install from an extended MS-DOS > >partition I kept getting an "Invalid Argument (22)" message whnever the > >instraller would ry to mount the partition (wd0s2). I finally > >managed to install from my Primary partition (C:) without a problem. > > > >I am again trying to mount this extended partition with no luck. I am > >still getting "Invalid Arguement" errors with mount. Anyone know what the > >problem could be? > > I encountered the same problem with 2.1. I decided that you simply > cannot install into an extended partition, but I'd be curious to know > if that's actually the case. > > Must FreeBSD be installed into a primary partition? > Actually, I believe the problem wasn' installing into the extended partition... Basically, he has a CDrom that is unsupported by the 2.1.5 boot disk (2.2-SNAP seems to support it...), so what he did was took and copied over what he required from the CDrom to an extended (E:) drive on his computer. Then, he booted up using the 2.1.5 disks and tried to do an install *from* the extended file systems (E: Drive), which is what was failing... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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