From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 22:10:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA02763 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA02705 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:03:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA03447 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:44:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA12076; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:43:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:43:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: HARDCORE COMMANDER cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error mounting In-Reply-To: <19970103184337.8816.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 3 Jan 1997, HARDCORE COMMANDER wrote: > i tried to install freebsd from a dos parition but it just fails. I always > get the message "can't mount /dev/wd0something on /dos argument > error (22) what is the problem" What's the command line you're using? should be like... mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos assuming your dos partition is on your first ide disk and you have a /dos directory on your unix system to mount it to. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major