Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:20:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Frank Seltzer <frankd@yoda.fdt.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems mounting a DOS drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960830231826.267h-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960830132443.222A-100000@Kryten.nina.org>
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On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Frank Seltzer wrote: > I am having problems mounting a DOS drive under 2.1.5 . No matter what I > type, I get the same error message: > > % /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/wd2 /mnt > msdos: mount: Invalid argument > % /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s1 /mnt > msdos: mount: Invalid argument > % /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s1a /mnt > msdos: mount: Invalid argument > % /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s1e /mnt > msdos: mount: Invalid argument This means the source filesystem (/dev/wd2) is not a valid DOS partition, at least as far as mount is concerned. Be evil and run mount_msdos manually: mount_msdos /dev/wd2 /mnt Also try using the 'c' device: mount_msdos /dev/wds1c /mnt > This drive has Win95 on it and is from another machine and I need to > retrieve some files from it and the machines are not networked. > > The drive is jumpered as master and is on the second IDE connector on the > motherboard by itself. The boot drive is SCSI. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Floppies work fine too :-) mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt 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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