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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:51:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Clement Lee <c7lee@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: error message when loading.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961203115006.4229F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.93.961202234903.31585A-100000@novice.uwaterloo.ca>

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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Clement Lee wrote:

> 	Hi.  I'm having problems loading FreeBSD onto my harddrive.  I
> keep getting an error saying: "Error Mounting /dev/wd0s2 on /dos: Invalid
> argument (22)".

wd0s2 (IDE disk 0, slice 2) is not a DOS primary partition.  You must
place the FreeBSD files on a Primary DOS partition, not an extended
partition.

> 	I am currently running Disk Manager 6.03 (for a Seagate 1480A, and
> a 1.7 gig Quantum).  I am also running Win95.  Win95 is being run on my
> first partition of the 1.7gig, and I downloaded the "bin" and "floppies"
> directory to my second partition on the 1.7 gig.  I wanted to load FreeBSD
> onto my second harddrive.
> 
> 	Any remedies to the problem?

Download the files to the first partition instead.

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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