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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mount_msdos
Date: 13 Sep 1995 04:42:21 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se,
Josh Karnes (joshk@tanisys.com) had the courage to say:
: I get all kinds of errors when I try to run either mount -t msdos or
: mount_msdos directly. says something about "invalid argument".
: the command line I am using is:
: mount -t msdos /dev/wd1a /dos
: The /dos directory exists, and everything seems to be in order.
: Which argument is invalid?
If you're using FreeBSD 2.0.5, then it's:
: mount -t msdos /dev/wd1a /dos
^^^^^^^^^
this one
Try this instead:
# mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s1 /dos
This assumes that your DOS filesystem resides on the first slice
of wd1. If DOS is the only thing on this disk, then this is the
case.
-Bill
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