Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:48:40 +0000 () From: Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> To: roddie@ki.net (Roddie Hasan) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting an extended partition.. Message-ID: <199609171648.QAA02144@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960916190951.18766B-100000@quagmire.ki.net> from Roddie Hasan at "Sep 16, 96 07:18:05 pm"
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> >
> > Basically, he has a CDrom that is unsupported by the 2.1.5
> > boot disk (2.2-SNAP seems to support it...), so what he did was took
> > and copied over what he required from the CDrom to an extended (E:)
> > drive on his computer. Then, he booted up using the 2.1.5 disks and
> > tried to do an install *from* the extended file systems (E: Drive),
> > which is what was failing...
>
> That was the start of the problem.. :) It wouldn't mount the partition to
> install from it. But even now since I've managed to install it, I still
> get the "Invalid Argument" error when I try to mount the extended
> partition.
>
> I am typing: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /dos_e
>
> It's more annoying since my Download and Data directories are on that
> partition in Win '95 and it would be nice to be able to access them.
>
> Ciao, Roddie
>
>
Try: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 /dos_e
^^^
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Werner
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