From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 3 21:24:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA24649 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 21:24:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlas.synflux.com.au (root@atlas.synflux.com.au [203.63.24.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA24619 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 21:24:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from unknown (syd-modem0013.synflux.com.au [203.63.24.22]) by atlas.synflux.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA31107 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 08:22:41 +1100 Message-ID: Priority: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Ernie Catania" Subject: installing freebsd from extended dos partition Date: Tue, 04 Mar 97 16:17:58 PST Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm attempting to install FreeBSD-2.1.7 from an extended DOS partition. Help info suggests this is possible using the following command " mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /dos_e". Exchanging dos_e with dos_d dosn't change the results. "wd0s2" is my extended dos partition, "e" is the logical drive I created solely for FreeBSD distribution files. Logical drive "d" I use for WIN3.1 and "c" is my primary dos partition. I used the mount command at the initial Boot: prompt when the boot disk loads up. The extended partition appears on the fdisk screen but not on the Label editor screen. When I attempt to install I get the message " Error Mounting Dos patition /dev/wd0s2 : invalid argument (22)" and another screen "Unable to initialize selected media etc" and suggests that I should repair it. My computer is a P120 with ide Hard drive and 16m of ram Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. regards Ernie Catania erniec@synflux.com.au