From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 6:53:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA8F37B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 06:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.204.134.115]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G9Q0068OBXANA@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 06:51:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 07:04:53 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: mount: /dos No such file or directory To: wsimpson Last Name Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AA3AB14.AFC610E2@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <200103050912.BAA27188@mail2.bigmailbox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try leaving your DOS partition out of the equation until you have FreeBSD installed; then, manually add it to your /etc/fstab, afterwards. Don't add any lines to /etc/fstab until you have manually tested the ability to mount and unmount the DOS filesystem with the mount(8) command; remember that you will have to tell the kernel that it is a DOS filesystem with the '-t msdos' flag to mount(8). I advise against mounting any DOS partition in any but read-only mode; your mileage may vary, and, obviously, there are circumstances where it is appropriate to ignore this warning; but not too many. Don't forget to read the manual pages for the mount(8) command; `man 8 mount` will work. Good luck ... -- richard wsimpson Last Name wrote: > I went through a few frustrating FreeBSD install attempts. The last time everything seemingly went OK. When I booted, I got the message: > > mount: /dos No such file or directory > mounting /etc/fstab filesystems failed > startup aborted > > I have an MSDOS partion which I called /dos in the install. I also named other partitions (in stage 2 of install process) > / > /var > /usr > swap > > I use the boot manager, and it boots into dos OK. > > I had no feedback during the install that something was amiss. > Is there any way to fix this up without going through the whole long > install yet again? > > Thanks very much for any help! > > Bill Simpson > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --== Sent via Deja.com ==-- > http://www.deja.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 415.664.6291 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message