From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 6 13: 4:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gactr.uga.edu (mail.gactr.uga.edu [128.192.37.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C48437B405 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:04:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26619 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2001 19:03:49 -0000 Received: from qat.noc.nat (HELO gactr.uga.edu) ([10.10.100.125]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Sep 2001 19:03:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3B97D6BE.4BC44465@gactr.uga.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 16:04:14 -0400 From: "Robin P. Blanchard" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount madness References: <3B97ACED.A8BFE9A8@gactr.uga.edu> <007a01c1370d$3bf04870$0a01a8c0@den2> <20010906155645.C8026@peitho.fxp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG after much wailing and gnashing of teeth i've figured out what the problem is. i wasn't doing anything wrong. the command was fine. the damn harddisk that i've been assigned to retrieve data from is apparently fat32x. i can't mount the bastard period. no freebsd. no linux. nothing. windows 2000 can't even speak fat32x. ridiculous. any ideas on how to get this thing working? (other than building up a windwos98 box) thanks in advance. > root@quattro [~]# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/fat32 > msdos: /dev/ad1s1: Invalid argument > > > what the hell am i doing wrong here? -- ------------------------------------ Robin P. Blanchard IT Program Specialist Georgia Center for Continuing Ed. fon: 706.542.2404 fax: 706.542.6546 email: Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu ------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message