Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:24:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Mounting an extended partition.. Message-ID: <199609181624.SAA11547@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199609161427.JAA17592@night.primate.wisc.edu> from "Paul DuBois" at Sep 16, 96 09:27:01 am
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Paul DuBois writes: > >> I have just received FreeBSD 2.1.5 on CDROM in the mail. >> >> During installation, when I was trying to install from an extended MS-DOS >> partition I kept getting an "Invalid Argument (22)" message whnever the >> instraller would ry to mount the partition (wd0s2). I finally >> managed to install from my Primary partition (C:) without a problem. >> >> I am again trying to mount this extended partition with no luck. I am >> still getting "Invalid Arguement" errors with mount. Anyone know what the >> problem could be? > > I encountered the same problem with 2.1. I decided that you simply > cannot install into an extended partition, but I'd be curious to know > if that's actually the case. > > Must FreeBSD be installed into a primary partition? No, FreeBSD must be installed into a FreeBSD partition. Primary and extended partitions are only for MS-DOS file systems. FreeBSD partitions have the partition ID 165. That's not what the original correspondent was talking about, though. He was trying to mount an MS-DOS partition so he could copy data from it. On the whole, you're better off without MS-DOS. If your CD-ROM drive works, that's definitely the way to go. Greg
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