Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:43:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Donny Lee <donny@ms1.hinet.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Installing] Unable to mount dos partition? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961016234316.3139L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610160307.LAA12494@ms1.hinet.net>
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Donny Lee wrote: > I'm currently installing 2.1.5, and failed several times in > the step of mounting a dos partition for reading sources from. > > I put entire 2.1.5 CD in a dos extended partition in 'sd1s1', > and 2.1.5 is going to be installed to 'sd1s2', and I selected > install from the 'sd1s1' when prompted. After several screen > changes, I got an unable to mount /dev/sd1s1 to /dos.... error msg. You can't mount extended partitions from sysinstall. The data must be on a primary DOS partition. That's all I can think of at this point.. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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