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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!news.iceonline.com!Newsposter From: brianm@iceonline.com (Brian McGhee) Subject: Re: mount_msdos X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Sender: Newsposter@news.iceonline.com (Newsposter) Nntp-Posting-Host: ns.iceonline.com Organization: ICE Online Message-ID: <DEuq73.57B@news.iceonline.com> References: <434vqn$20m@outer.net> <435nfd$gk5@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 11:07:59 GMT Lines: 32 wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) wrote: >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 Don't forget, the directory /dos has to exist. Use 'mkdir /dos'.