From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 24 20:15:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA10914 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.mnsinc.com (mail1.mnsinc.com [206.55.3.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA10908 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:15:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from steffi.mnsinc.com (steffi.mnsinc.com [206.239.33.180]) by mail1.mnsinc.com (8.6.5/8.7.1) with ESMTP id XAA01107; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 23:14:47 -0500 Received: (from robert@localhost) by steffi.mnsinc.com (8.7.4/8.7.4) id XAA01197; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 23:14:43 -0500 (EST) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install question.. CC: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Reply-To: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com References: <199602250408.OAA28703@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> From: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com (Robert Nicholson) Date: 24 Feb 1996 23:14:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: Michael Smith's message of Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:38:31 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: Organization: x Lines: 43 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk writes: >Robert Nicholson stands accused of saying: >> >>Somebody has just told me that / is seen as sd0a but as far as I'm >I told you that the first BSD slice fits the compatability notation, >and thus if you installed onto the first BSD slice, the root filesystem >should be /dev/sd0a, yes. >>really care too much about that. >You should care; either you did something odd in the partition editor or you >have a more serious problem. >>Anyway, in fstab >> >>it puts /dev/sd0a as my / filesystem and at boot time I always have to >>mount /dev/sd0c over / then mount /usr so I can get the tools needed >>to edit fstab and write fstab and reboot. >This will work because 'a' and 'c' start at the same place, so you're >picking up the same filesystem information. OK you have a good point here. Well I'll boot now with fstab containing sd0a instead of sd0c and it won't boot. (At least it didn't last time) NOTE: FreeBSD is the 3rd slice. ie. 3rd primary partition. >However, you should be able to mount 'a' just fine. How about some >error messages so we can actually see what's happening? I'd love to but until I get Accelerated X working correctly. (Won't detect mouse/tablet even though I've compiled it in my kernel). I cannot set up ppp because I don't want to do all of that from the console. I'd need to mount my dos filesystem to transfer the files across unless I can use bad144 to put them on a floppy disk or something. ie. my internet connection is via NeXTSTEP at the moment. -- "For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots" (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)