From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 7 13:57:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21316 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21174 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA13314; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:56:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:56:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Roman Katsnelson cc: "q's" Subject: Re: Mounting problem when installing 2.2.7 In-Reply-To: <35CAF688.BABD653A@graphnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > Hi, > > I just added the hard drive, and decided to reinstall. I booted off the > floppy for 2.2.7 and went through the pre-installation stuff. It newfs'd > the new disk (WD Caviar 8912Cyl, 15H, 63S = 4.3G), and then gave me this > message: > > Error mounting /mnt/dev/wd1s1e on /mnt/usr1: Invalid argument. (100%) Did you actually wipe out the old partition, or just install over it? Now that it's newfs'd, it's totally wiped, so delete the FreeBSD partition and reinstall from scratch. > Now I feel like a fool for wiping out 2.2.6.... Yeah, you should have upgraded and read http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message