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Subject: Re: mount dos partition
To: hounddog@juno.com (Hans N Gruber)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 13:02:45 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <19961206.133209.4671.0.hounddog@juno.com> from Hans N Gruber at "Dec 6, 96 01:36:08 pm"
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In a previous message, Hans N Gruber said:
> I tried to mount my dos partition using the following command line:
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0 /mnt
> and got message:
> mount: invalid argument.

A guess, but /dev/wd0 isn't a valid slice. You probably want
/dev/wd0s0, if your first slice is DOS.


> It seems to me that mount_dos should be in /usr/sbin,(???)
> but mine is in /sbin. Copying it to /usr/sbin didn't help 
> matters any. What am I doing wrong?
> Also, what should be in my /mnt directory? It is empty.
> TIA, Hans
> 
> 


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