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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!gmdtub!ats From: ats@first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Mount, term, mkfs/mkdfs in FreeBSD Message-ID: <5370@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: 29 Jul 94 13:27:01 GMT References: <31163rINN7qt@CS.UTK.EDU> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Organization: GMD-FIRST Lines: 29 In article <31163rINN7qt@CS.UTK.EDU>, Boman Abadan <abadan@menkar.cs.utk.edu> wrote: >Help Please. > >I am running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1R > > when ever I try to mount the floppies that were formated for > dos under SunOS with mkdfs or under linux with mformat > I get the following error > > mount: Invalid Argument. It looks like something is missing in the DOS header on the floppy. >One more thing: where can I get mkfs and mkdfs for FreeBSD mkfs is standard on FreeBSD :-). For DOS "formatting" of floppies i can only offer you "mformat", that is part of the mtools package. Should be somewhere under the packages directory for FreeBSD. You can also use the "mdir" and "mcopy" programs from mtool to access your DOS floppies instead of the pcfs-mount. -- ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856 Germany/Europe