From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 13:51:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54CE37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web12503.mail.yahoo.com (web12503.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BBB543FEC for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:51:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bbeday@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030422205137.68684.qmail@web12503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [192.197.206.120] by web12503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:51:37 PDT Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:51:37 -0700 (PDT) From: brad beday To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: installation of bin files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:51:37 -0000 Hi, I'm writting this because i don't have easy internet access so i can't easily get an iso image and start a fresh install. I am installing a minimal 4.8 distrobution, just the bin and man file sets on a dos partition. When i start the actuall installation in the setup program, it stops with the messages "using existing root partition - assumed you have appropriate device entries in /dev" & "error mounting /dev/ad0s1 on /dist - no such file or directory" I started an installation a few days ago, but stopped it before i commited the installation. I tried to complete the install a while latter without success. I've checked the file system on the harddrive and the mount point /dist is there, however, the /dev directory contains no entry for ad0s1. Instead it has ad0s1a to ... ad0s1h & ad0s2a, ad0s2b, ad0s2e I should explain that i've created a dos partition labelled ad0s1 with fdisk in the setup, refere to the bottom of this message. So, like in linuxnese, i thought i could refere to the entire partition with ad0s1 but with no ad0s1 entry in dev, i guess i can't. Is this why i get the "no such file" error message in my installation? If so, what do i do to get the system to use the right /dev entry? I can't seem to change it in setup, is there a way and which entry do i use? Do i have to manually make a dev entry with some external program? I've checked my dos partition and it has the bin file set on it. c:\freebsd\bin c:\freebsd\man below is a set of values for my setup screens Fdisk offset PType Desc Subtype 0 6 unused 0 62 2 fat 6 204848 3 freebsd 165 CA Drive geometry is 1018/14/62 just like hard disk Freebsd Boot Mngr installed Disk Label Mount ad0s1 /dos 99M dos ad0s2a / 30M ufs N ad0s2b swap 20M ad0s2e /usr 281M ufs+S N __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com