From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 23:44:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA09793 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA09788 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA04283; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:43:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Donny Lee cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Installing] Unable to mount dos partition? In-Reply-To: <199610160307.LAA12494@ms1.hinet.net> 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 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