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Date:      Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:46:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
To:        Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vnconfig question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012081343390.12020-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10012081543180.25259-100000@breakout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>

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If you create your image using the slice instead of the disk device, does
that make it any easier? (note, I haven't tried this myself as I generally
don't have sliced or MSDOS disks on my machines)  Ie:

 dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=maxtorbackup2

Ken

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Tim McMillen wrote:

> Ok I mount it like this:  (I included the wrong ways in case that tells
> somebody something)
> tim# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1 /mnt
> msdos: /dev/ad1: Invalid argument
> tim# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1c /mnt
> msdos: /dev/ad1c: Invalid argument
> tim# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt
> tim# ls /mnt
> CONFIG.SYS      IO.SYS          NANSI.SYS       QBASIC      AUTOEXEC.BAT
> etc.
> 
> 	I created the image exactly as above in my message,
> tim# dd if=/dev/ad1 of=maxtorbackup2
> 
> 	But I still get: 
> tim# vnconfig /dev/vn0s1 ./maxtorbackup2
> tim# mount_msdos /dev/vn0s1 /mnt
> mount_msdos: /dev/vn0s1: Invalid argument



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