From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 12 17: 2:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C70C84013 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:02:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from GRAND-CENTRAL-STATION.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14662; Sat, 12 Feb 00 20:03:59 EST Received: from melbourne-city-street.MIT.EDU (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.45]) by grand-central-station.MIT.EDU (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA27729 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:02:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from department-of-alchemy.mit.edu (DEPARTMENT-OF-ALCHEMY.MIT.EDU [18.184.0.38]) by melbourne-city-street.MIT.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA11832 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:02:42 -0500 (EST) Received: (from arvinds@localhost) by department-of-alchemy.mit.edu (8.9.3) id UAA06869; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:02:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002130102.UAA06869@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing freebsd from dos partition Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:02:40 -0500 From: Arvind Sankar Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi. I'm trying to install the 3.2 release on a i386 system that has one ide and one scsi disk. The release files are under freebsd/ in /dev/da0s1, which is a dos partition. /dev/da0s3 is the bsd slice. /dev/da0s2 is a linux root partition, and /dev/da0s4 is an extended partition containing the rest of the linux part. when I attempt to set the install media to DOS, I get the error message: Cannot mount /dev/da0s4 on /dist. How do I persuade the installer to look at /dev/da0s1 instead? The problem is incomprehensible to me, because /dev/da0s4 is not even a dos partition (shows up as unknown in the pc partition editor). Can someone help? -- Arvind Sankar phone : (617)-776-5083 156 School St, #6 e-mail: arvinds@mit.edu Somerville, MA02143 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message