Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 21:29:36 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Jim Durham <jcd@cs.pitt.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: floppy installation of 2.0.5-ALPHA Message-ID: <21052.802153776@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jun 95 00:09:21 EDT." <CMM.0.90.4.802152561.jcd@blitz.cs.pitt.edu>
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> The problem with the floppy installation is that the device /dev/fd0a > returns "busy" whenever you try to mount it. It does not appear to be Hmmm. I need to look into this more, thanks. Floppy detection is really giving me a pain, and my decision to go with fds rather that FILE *'s has robbed me of any pushback! :-( Clearly someone has still got hold of the floppy.. I will check that the close from the root floppy extract is happening properly. > mounted anywhere. Looking from the ALT-F4 shell, it also appears that > the first slice of wd0 is wierd. It shows up as "wd0a", I think it > wants to be "wd0s2a" ?? It is mounted on /mnt. If this is true, where No, that's actually correct. I have to to to extra trouble to turn the correct "wd0s2a" into "wd0a" (one of the compatibility slice names) since the boot blocks cannot currently deal with slices. I'm stuck with the old name for root partitions.. :-( Jordan
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