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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 14:18:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: accessing DOS extended partitions
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On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Peter Kipfer wrote:

> The splitted DOS partition C is read/write -able without problems.
> The problem now is: I cannot mount my extended DOS partitions drives D and E:
> (with the GENERIC and my own kernel build) the command looks like
> 
> [root]# mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s1 /dos_d
> msdos: mount: Invalid argument

The extended partitions can be mounted, but you have to mount from slice 5
on up, so for your first logical disk, it's mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s5
/dos_d.  I think.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major