From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 11:49:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA07622 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:49:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA07616 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:49:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA04290; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:51:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:51:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Clement Lee cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error message when loading. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Clement Lee wrote: > Hi. I'm having problems loading FreeBSD onto my harddrive. I > keep getting an error saying: "Error Mounting /dev/wd0s2 on /dos: Invalid > argument (22)". wd0s2 (IDE disk 0, slice 2) is not a DOS primary partition. You must place the FreeBSD files on a Primary DOS partition, not an extended partition. > I am currently running Disk Manager 6.03 (for a Seagate 1480A, and > a 1.7 gig Quantum). I am also running Win95. Win95 is being run on my > first partition of the 1.7gig, and I downloaded the "bin" and "floppies" > directory to my second partition on the 1.7 gig. I wanted to load FreeBSD > onto my second harddrive. > > Any remedies to the problem? Download the files to the first partition instead. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major