From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 7:28:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from megamail.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5767814D4B for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 07:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from [207.249.163.252] by megamail.megared.net.mx (NTMail 3.03.0017/4c.ab3r) with ESMTP id ua447896 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 09:22:42 -0500 Message-ID: <008201bed5df$fa0f90e0$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Matthew Englehart" , References: <002601bed581$402a3d00$03b936cf@apk.net> Subject: RE: problems mounting msdos partition Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 09:22:35 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Are you actually using "TABS" instead of spaces, its mandatory I thnk. Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew Englehart To: Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 10:04 PM Subject: problems mounting msdos partition > With 2.2.8: > > Here is the relevant line from /etc/fstab: > > /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos r 2 2 > > When I type "mount /dos" I get the error message: > > fstab: /etc/fstab:6: Inappropriate file type or format > fstab: /etc/fstab:6: Inappropriate file type or format > mount: /dos: unknown special file or file system > > However, when I type > > mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos > > everything is fine; e.g. I can ls /dos > > Any idea why the first way doesn't work? Mounting of > /dos also fails during the OS boot. > > Thanks, > Matt Englehart > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message