Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:54:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: "Peter W. Sheremeta" <sherp@ottawa.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Mounting CD-ROMs (was: Cry for Help) Message-ID: <20000814105410.B743@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000813213519.A2555@student.uu.se>; from ertr1013@student.uu.se on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:35:20PM %2B0200 References: <000701c0055c$82b676a0$691cbfce@petermainhome> <20000813213519.A2555@student.uu.se>
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On Sunday, 13 August 2000 at 21:35:20 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:25:56PM -0400, Peter W. Sheremeta wrote: >> HELP! >> >> As a summer project, I thought I would take an old 486DX2-66 with 16M RAM >> and load an operating system that wasn't controlled by Microsoft. It was >> meant to be a learning experience since I don't interface with Unix on a >> daily basis. The final objective is to see if I can get this old box >> running as a network server and tie in the two Windows clients I have in the >> house into a mini home network. Good idea until I ran into the following >> problem, a solution for which I would gratefully accept: >> >> The PC has an EISA motherboard with an SMC LAN card and a SCSI HD as well as >> a SCSI CD ROM. I created the image floppies as described in the install >> instructions and all seemed to be going well, including the partitioning of >> the HD. A quick look with SCROLL LOCK ON shows the following last four >> lines: >> >> cd0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3401TA 0283> Removeable CD-ROM SCSI-2 drive >> cd0: 3.300 MB/s transfers >> cd0: cd present [62118 x 2048 byte records] >> /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 >> >> The CD reference above is a distribution of FreeBSD 4.1 release that I >> pulled down off the Net and burned onto the CD. I believe I have captured >> all the most important (essential) sub-directories off the Net (bin, crypto, >> etc) > > This is probably where you went wrong. If you want to burn your own CD you > should get the iso-image of 4.1-RELEASE and burn that. Trying to make it > work by getting individual files/directories is non-trivial to say the > least. > > ( ftp://ftp.frebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.1-install.iso > ) What's wrong with the way he did it? From what he said, it's not even clear that this isn't exactly what he did. He hasn't got to his problem yet. >> All goes well until I try to install the FreeBSD distribution off CDROM when >> I get the following error message: >> >> Error mounting /dev/cd0c on /dist: No such file or directory(2) Well, in that case you need either the directory /dist or the device node /dev/cd0c. Try this: # mkdir /dist # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV cd0 The first line creates the /dist directory; the other two create the /dev/cd0c device. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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