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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:27:01 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu>
To:        roddie@ki.net (Roddie Hasan)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Mounting an extended partition..
Message-ID:  <199609161427.JAA17592@night.primate.wisc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960916083157.18766A-100000@quagmire.ki.net> from "Roddie Hasan" at Sep 16, 96 08:38:41 am

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>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?



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