From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 07:53:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA15157 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 07:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de (btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de [132.180.20.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA15142 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 07:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA02144; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:48:40 GMT From: Werner Griessl Message-Id: <199609171648.QAA02144@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> Subject: Re: Mounting an extended partition.. In-Reply-To: from Roddie Hasan at "Sep 16, 96 07:18:05 pm" To: roddie@ki.net (Roddie Hasan) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:48:40 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (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 > > > > 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 ^^^ | Werner