From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 12 23:16:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA21282 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA21277 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA10313; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:16:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Martin Przyjazny cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing from a DOS partition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Martin Przyjazny wrote: > 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. What type of partition(s) are on your Maxtor (wd1)? You must place the FreeBSD files on a Primary DOS partition; extended partitions don't cut it. > *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. You've tried modifying the scd0 device to match the settings for your CD controller? The old ones used a proprietary controller but FreeBSD does support it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major