From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 25 07:59:13 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA12632 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Dec 1994 07:59:13 -0800 Received: from mail04.mail.aol.com (mail04.mail.aol.com [152.163.172.53]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA12626 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 1994 15:59:11 GMT From: TomShannon@aol.com Received: by mail04.mail.aol.com (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA22572; Sun, 25 Dec 1994 10:55:17 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 10:55:17 -0500 Message-Id: <941225105516_6841951@aol.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install question... Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm new to FreeBSD and UN*X in general. I'm installing on a machine configured with: Hardware: 486dx 33 Master drive : 340mb Western Dig Caviar Slave drive : 540mb Western Dig Caviar (I know, doesn't show much imagination) Mitsumi 2x CD-ROM with Mitsumi-compatible controller 8 Meg ram Colorado 250mb Jumbo tape drive Software: Windows For Workgroups 3.11 on the 340mb drive I was attempting to install FreeBSD on the 540mb drive. I plan to use approx 300mb of the 540mb drive as my FreeBSD partition/slice. I followed the directions for using the slave drive as the boot drive. I get to the point where I am booting successfully from the 540 drive, but I get a "panic" message saying it can't mount the root directory. I've tried the install process several times. It seems that after I reboot the configuration doesn't 'remember' my mount points, including (unfortunately) the root and swap mounts. Any suggestions? I'm still looking (please don't flame me for this, but I'm employed as a Microsoft Solution Provider) since I don't believe in giving up. But if you have any useful things to chase down... Thanks in advance, Tom Shannon CB Technologies, Inc.