From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 30 15:33:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA21313 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:33:08 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA21308 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:33:06 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA18874; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:27:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509302227.PAA18874@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: install questions To: ernest@apk.net (Ernest L. Lane) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:27:32 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Ernest L. Lane" at Sep 30, 95 03:36:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 773 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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 ^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds like EIDE. You know, of course, that 2048 is too large a number for 10 bits, which is all you have for cylinder information. > 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 ^ typo? Should be 0, not O or o. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.