From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 06:07:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA27522 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA27515 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA08506; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:57:10 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199610211657.LAA08506@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Mounting my dos partition To: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:57:10 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hopkik@rpi.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199610211553.XAA17334@ms1.hinet.net> from Donny Lee at "Oct 21, 96 03:30:07 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Donny Lee said: > -=*> hopkik@rpi.edu wrote: > > from there. My problem is installing the packages. I have tried copying > > the packages directory to my dos partition and installing from there, but > > the installation menu can't seem to find the Index file even though it is > > there. My dos subdirectory is empty so I suspect that the problem is that > > my dos partition is not mounted, but I haven't had any luck with the > > command: > > mount msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos Could this be a typo? You want to mount with mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030