From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 18 18:38:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21182 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dean.pc.sas.com (spi11311.southpeak.com [192.58.191.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21169 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdean@dean.pc.sas.com) Received: (from brdean@localhost) by dean.pc.sas.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06566; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:36:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brdean) Message-Id: <199808190136.VAA06566@dean.pc.sas.com> From: "Brian Dean" Subject: Re: Sysinstall broken: can't load config file from floppy In-Reply-To: <14048.903484558@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 18, 98 04:55:58 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:36:57 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: brdean@unx.sas.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > While installing FreeBSD from today's snap (8/18), I got the following > > error when loading a configuration file from a floppy: > > > > "Error mounting floppy fd0 (/dev/fd0) on /dist : Invalid argument" > > > > The debug screen only said: > > > > "DEBUG: Init floppy called for xxx.cfg distribution" > > I took MSDOSFS out of the GENERIC kernel a few days ago in order to > make the snaps work again - we were out of space. This isn't critical > from the DOS installation code since it doesn't use msdosfs, it uses > stand-alone DOSFS parsing code in sysinstall. Unfortunately, the > corner case here is the floppy mount code which tries UFS then MSDOSFS > as a mount type - it doesn't go through the stand-alone stuff. > > Hmmmm. Is this really critical, or can you put your config file on > a UFS formatted floppy? > > - Jordan It's not that critical, I can put the config file on a UFS floppy. Thanks, -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message