From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 13:17:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA04585 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA04576 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by quagmire.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id QAA03894; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:17:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA20578; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:16:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:16:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Paul DuBois cc: Roddie Hasan , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting an extended partition.. In-Reply-To: <199609161427.JAA17592@night.primate.wisc.edu> 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, 16 Sep 1996, Paul DuBois wrote: > >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? > Actually, I believe the problem wasn' installing into the extended partition... Basically, he has a CDrom that is unsupported by the 2.1.5 boot disk (2.2-SNAP seems to support it...), so what he did was took and copied over what he required from the CDrom to an extended (E:) drive on his computer. Then, he booted up using the 2.1.5 disks and tried to do an install *from* the extended file systems (E: Drive), which is what was failing... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org