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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!yale!yale!yale.edu!news.ycc.yale.edu!remote1-line2.cis.yale.edu!news From: news@remote1-line2.cis.yale.edu (Marc's News Account) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Free beer for every FreeBSD User!! Date: 28 Sep 1994 02:34:55 GMT Organization: Yale University Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <36akof$p9m@news.ycc.yale.edu> References: <3699f3$439@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: remote1-line2.cis.yale.edu In article <3699f3$439@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>, gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara) writes: |> About the beer, sorry, I lied ;=( But I would be very thankful for any pointers. That's real uncool, but I guess I'll answer anyway... :) |> exec: /sbin/mount_pcfs /dev/fd0 /tmp/floppy |> mount: invalid argument |> |> I checked whether /dev/fd0 and /tmp/floppy exist, and both do. Then I rebooted |> to dos to check whether the floppy is any good, and it was. So I figured I did |> something stupid and started the installation from the beginning, being careful |> to do things excactly as in the README.INSTALL directions. And I do get the same |> error again. Everything went smoothly upto this point. I played a little with |> trying to mount the floppy by hand, but no success. How were these disks formatted? If you see a disk access and mount comes back with 'mount: invalid argument', it usually means that it didn't like the high-level format (in other words, BSD didn't recognize the signature of the program that did the format). I once bought a box of 100 pre-formatted disks which BSD didn't recognize, so I had to go through and re-format them. Perfect waste of time. Try re-formatting and re-writing one of the disks using the bona fide Microsoft FORMAT.COM. It should work. :/ |> Thank's |> -Andrej Marc.