Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:55:58 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Chris <cje@idmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting MS-DOS partition. Message-ID: <20000226185558.F24331@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <002f01bf80a8$c3f33420$8e0b0a0a@direct.ca>; from cje@idmail.com on Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:28:11PM -0800 References: <002f01bf80a8$c3f33420$8e0b0a0a@direct.ca>
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:28:11PM -0800, Chris wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to mount an MSDOS partition in order to copy some of the > distribution files onto it as I will be using it while setting up some > FreeBSD displays for a computer store. However, I got the following error > in sysinstall (when I have it look for packages on that disk) and when I try > to manually mount it. > > Please advise, > > -Chris England > > root@freebsd /mnt>mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 wd0s1 > mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s1: Invalid argument > > (I tried mount -t dos /dev/wd0s1 wd0s1 as well) > > root@freebsd /mnt>fdisk /dev/wd0s1 > ******* Working on device /dev/wd0s1 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=985 heads=16 sectors/track=52 (832 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=985 heads=16 sectors/track=52 (832 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255 Seems quite clear that there is no slice 1 on this disk (wd0s1). There is only a FreeBSD partition, no MSDOS partition. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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