From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 21:12:17 2002 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 D9DD037B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:12:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from abstractfactory.org (fcahoon.dsl.visi.com [208.42.140.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDF743E6E for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:12:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrest@abstractfactory.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by garbarek.abstractfactory.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1877cO-0001Fb-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:11:44 -0600 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:11:43 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <20021030.231143.78732582.forrest@abstractfactory.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install problem -- can't mount disk From: Forrest Cahoon X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I posted about my attempt to install FreeBSD a while ago; you can see my last message at http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=258395+0+archive/2002/freebsd-questions/20021027.freebsd-questions I was prompted by a suggestion sent to me personally to give FreeBSD one more try on this box, and I discovered something totally strange. I went through the install again, and before rebooting, used Ctrl-Alt-F4 to switch to the shell and investigate things. This is what I found: # df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/md0c 8439 5501 2854 66% / /dev/ad0s1a 257980 68528 168816 29% /mnt /mnt/dev/ad0s1f 515996 124 474596 0% /mnt/tmp /mnt/dev/ad0s1g 9192684 165416 8291856 2% /mnt/usr /mnt/dev/ad0s1e 2064284 224 1898920 0% /mnt/var /dev/acd0c 1249472 1249472 0 100% /dist # Ok, this looks straightforward. The target disk is mounted on /mnt and some stuff has been copied to each of the partitions. The CD I'm installing from is mounted on /dist. But when I try to see what's actually on /mnt: # ls -alR /mnt total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 9 12:42 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Oct 30 04:57 .. # Where are all the files? This is truly whack. Here's some more weirdness: # umount /mnt/dev/ad0s1e umount: unmount of /mnt/var failed: No such file or directory # Yet, another df will show the same table as above. Does anyone have any advice for me to try now? -- forrest@abstractfactory.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message