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Subject: Re: Mounting an extended partition..
To: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:24:12 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199609161427.JAA17592@night.primate.wisc.edu> from "Paul DuBois" at Sep 16, 96 09:27:01 am
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Paul DuBois writes:
>
>> I have just received FreeBSD 2.1.5 on CDROM in the mail.
>>
>> During installation, when I was trying to install from an extended MS-DOS
>> partition I kept getting an "Invalid Argument (22)" message whnever the
>> instraller would ry to mount the partition (wd0s2). I finally
>> managed to install from my Primary partition (C:) without a problem.
>>
>> I am again trying to mount this extended partition with no luck.  I am
>> still getting "Invalid Arguement" errors with mount.  Anyone know what the
>> problem could be?
>
> I encountered the same problem with 2.1.  I decided that you simply
> cannot install into an extended partition, but I'd be curious to know
> if that's actually the case.
>
> Must FreeBSD be installed into a primary partition?

No, FreeBSD must be installed into a FreeBSD partition.  Primary and
extended partitions are only for MS-DOS file systems.  FreeBSD
partitions have the partition ID 165.

That's not what the original correspondent was talking about, though.
He was trying to mount an MS-DOS partition so he could copy data from
it.  On the whole, you're better off without MS-DOS.  If your CD-ROM
drive works, that's definitely the way to go.

Greg