Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:36:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ernest L. Lane" <ernest@apk.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install questions Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950930152313.18589B-100000@junior.wariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199509280018.RAA11377@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I emailed a question about the syquest drive that I am attempting to > > install FreeBSD 2.0.5 upon. The question involved the software reading > > the setup of the drive incorrectly. A message was returned to the effect > > that I should setup the software to use the true conditions of the drive. > > The situation is that I was doing this, but the results are that the > > softwared does not load onto the drive. I am able to install Unixware > > 2.0 and linux distributions without difficulty. > > Is there a file or some directions that can help me through the setup? > > You are doing a peculiar thing. > > You will need to describe the failure in more detail before you will > be able to get a resonable answer. > > Where does the install stop? > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > I'll try to give a clean understanding of what my problem has been with the installation process. The software wants to see my drive as 2048/16/32 in lieu of 1024/16/32 as it actually happens to be. The fdisk editor is very confusing and I wonder if I'm getting it correct. I change the geometry of the drive to 1024/16/32 and setup to use the entire drive for the system. I move on to setup the drive as follows: wdos1a / 20mb wdos1b swap 20mb wd0s1e /usr 216mb I select to use the MBR Master Boot Record The software installation starts and I get the following messages: 1 "Error mount /mnt/dev/wdos1e on /mnt/usr -- invalid argument 2 "Write failure on transfer! (wrote 1 byte of 10240 bytes) 3 "Unable to transfer the bin distribution for ..... 4. "Unable to transfer the manpages ..... 5. "Unable to transfer the dict ....... etc...................... etc........................ etc........................ I expected the installation to be different than linux, but I get the idea that the software will not install on an ide Syquest drive. I have installed Linux, Unixware, Windows95 and Dos 6.22. I have unsuccessful in setting up the system to use OS/2 Warp. I assume that this software is like OS/2 to this system. If I am not doing something correctly, please let me know. Thank you in advance. Ernest
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