Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:51:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Clement Lee <c7lee@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error message when loading. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961203115006.4229F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.93.961202234903.31585A-100000@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Clement Lee wrote: > Hi. I'm having problems loading FreeBSD onto my harddrive. I > keep getting an error saying: "Error Mounting /dev/wd0s2 on /dos: Invalid > argument (22)". wd0s2 (IDE disk 0, slice 2) is not a DOS primary partition. You must place the FreeBSD files on a Primary DOS partition, not an extended partition. > I am currently running Disk Manager 6.03 (for a Seagate 1480A, and > a 1.7 gig Quantum). I am also running Win95. Win95 is being run on my > first partition of the 1.7gig, and I downloaded the "bin" and "floppies" > directory to my second partition on the 1.7 gig. I wanted to load FreeBSD > onto my second harddrive. > > Any remedies to the problem? Download the files to the first partition instead. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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