From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 4: 7:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0713337B751 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 04:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from heinrich.hiemesch@online.de) Received: from [195.20.224.204] (helo=mrvdom00.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12Uq6q-0004Zj-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:07:36 +0100 Received: from pc19eb231.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([193.158.178.49]) by mrvdom00.schlund.de with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12Uq6k-0007FJ-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:07:30 +0100 From: heinrich.hiemesch@online.de (Heinrich Hiemesch) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Q: Mount extended FAT32 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:10:22 GMT Reply-To: heinrich.hiemesch@online.de X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I am running 3.4 stable in a i586 with one 10 GB IDE HDD. (The rest of my) W95 occupies two partitions C:\ and D:\, the last is a extended FAT32 partition. The problem I have is that I can't mount the FAT32 partition with eg. mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /mnt This attempt will produce the error: msdos: /dev/wd0s2: Invalid argument BTW: The C:\-partition was mounted correctly by the setup diskettes. To make the contents of my HDD clear I show you the results of fdisk: --------------------------------------------------------------- ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=3D1650 heads=3D255 sectors/track=3D63 (16065 blks/cyl) =46igures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=3D1650 heads=3D255 sectors/track=3D63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 63, size 4192902 (2047 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 5,(Extended DOS) start 4192965, size 8401995 (4102 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 261/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 783/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 12594960, size 13912290 (6793 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 784/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 4 is: --------------------------------------------------------------- I've searched the archives about FAT32 mounting but not found any helpful yet. Any hints /help will be very appreciated. H. Hiemesch --=20 IGEWA GmbH Tel +49-8638-949853 =46ax +49-8638-949854 GSM +49-171-8989853 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message