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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!werner.sax.de!not-for-mail From: j@werner.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting DOS extended partition problem Date: 15 Sep 1995 12:08:20 +0200 Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <43bjak$i6t@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <438c1l$4mn@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Kevin Hendrix <hendrix@beauty1.phy.olemiss.edu> wrote: > I'm trying to mount a DOS extended partition in FreeBSD 2.0.5 and >can't seem to get it to work. Here's my setup: > /dev/sd0s1 - Primary DOS partition > /dev/sd0s2 - Extended DOS partition ... > >I can mount /dev/sd0s1 into FreeBSD with no problems, but mounting >/dev/sd0s2 ALWAYS generates an error message about an "invalid >argument". I think you cannot direclty mount an extended partition, since it's only pointing to a second-level partition table that contains the actual extended partition. (But i could easily be wrong here, i don't have any MSDOG partition in my reach, just guessing.) -- cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)