Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:41:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Martin Przyjazny <przy8831@nova.gmi.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Cc: Martin Przyjazny <przy8831@nova.gmi.edu> Subject: Installing from a DOS partition Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.971013003127.28395D-100000@nova>
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I'm having some difficulties installing from a DOS partition. I've got two hard disks in my 486dx66 box: a brand spankin' new 2.1Gb Maxtor and a not so new 120Mb Western Digital. I tried copying the installation files from the CD to the WD and running the install from the "DOS partition," but it came up with the following error message after it made the newfs on the Maxtor and tried to start to copy the files: "Error mounting DOS partition /dev/wd1s1 : Invalid argument (22)" wd1s1 would be my WD drive. Maxtor is wd0s1. It is interesting that I got the same error message when I divided the Maxtor drive into two partitions, 1000mb each, and put the freebsd CD installation files on one of them, and chose only one as a dedicated Freebsd partition with the fdisk utility. *phew* I am just about ready to throw everything through the window, or even take it calmly downstairs, into the basement, out of the patio door, and into the nearby pond. I can't install straight from the CD either, because Freebsd doesn't recognize my veeery old and piece-of-shite single speed Sony CD rom. Help, please. Martin Przyjazny przy8831@gmi.edu
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