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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:33:21 -0800
From:      Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To:        pstephan@cs.cmu.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems mounting extended DOS partition
Message-ID:  <35070321.CECE085A@dal.net>
References:  <1386.889646894@N2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU>

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pstephan@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know that it shouldn't be hard, but I am unable to mount
> my extended DOS partition from FreeBSD.  I don't have any
> problem mounting my primary DOS partition.  Here's the message
> that I get when I try to mount it:
> 
> # mount_msdos /dev/wd0s3 /dos
> mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s3: Invalid argument

	The first extended DOS partition is known to the system as slice 5. So
you would want to use mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 /dos instead. 

Good luck,

Doug

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