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From: pteodoro@telepac.pt (Zombie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Resume aborted install
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 06:01:17 GMT
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jpw687@the.link.ca (Blas Zappa) wrote:


>also there's the question of what I am doing wrong in the mount
>command.. I tried mount_msdos /dev/wd1 /Dos and got invalid option

Probably your Dos partition it isn't at /dev/wd1. Normaly the Dos
partition is at  /dev/wd0s1. Check out were your Dos partition is.

>when I went to root and used mount_msdos /dev/wd1 Dos
>it said something about relative paths and then printed using
>//Dos followed by the invalid option error.. please advise..

Try somethig like :
	mount_msdos /dev/were_ever_your_partition_is /dos

You posted that you tried mount_msdos /dev/wd1 /Dos -> Does your Dos
dir begins in Upper or lower case ????

I hope I helped you....