From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 6:35:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AB414C03 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 06:35:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a022.otenet.gr [195.167.115.22]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA29925 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 16:35:42 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 2991 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Oct 1999 12:23:42 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from dos problem References: <380E8D80.812946B3@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 21 Oct 1999 15:23:41 +0300 In-Reply-To: Jean-Mark Dupoux's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 1999 04:50:25 +0100" Message-ID: <86k8ognbqq.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jean-Mark Dupoux writes: > I put 40 mb for , 91mb and 30mb on wd0s1, and 856 mb > on wd0s4 in the labelling screen. > > Unfortunately when it came to the install, I got hit by the same near > instantaneous error message: > > > "error mounting /dev/wd0s3 on /dist : invalid argument (22)" > Maybe I am all wrong here, but shouldn't that be a FreeBSD `partition' and not a slice? I mean, something like: error mounting /dev/wd0s3a on /dist : invalid argument (22) When, during the installation you're making the partitions for FreeBSD, there are two stages AFAIK. 1. Create the BSD `slices', with the correct slice type. This should give you the /dev/wd0s3 thing with a slice type of 165. 2. Enter the disklabel editor and create the proper partitions. This will let you create /dev/wd0s3a, /dev/wd0s3b, etc. Trying to mount /dev/wd0s3 as a BSD partition is probably going to fail because `mounting' makes sense only for partitions and this is a slice. Perhaps you did not specify correctly the mount points in the disklabel editor? I can't think of something else right now... -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message