Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 20:13:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, John Bowman <desslock@ix.comcat.com>, Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> Subject: Re: Installation of 2.1.5 off DOS directory Message-ID: <XFMail.961010204227.durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961008203757.2709K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On 00:38:46 Doug White opined: >>On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, John Bowman wrote: > >> I'm trying to install FreeBSD off of a DOS partition. My hardware >> configuration is as follows: >> >> 486 DX-4100 with 16MB RAM >> 540 Meg Western Digital with one primary and one extended (two logical) >> DOS drives recognised by FreeBSD as wd0s0 and wd0s1. >> 1.6 Gig Seagate with one extended (recognised as wd1s0) as by FreeBSD >> boot drive and 1.4 Gig unused (partitioned and labeled through FreeBSD >> installation. >> >> The installation process sets up the unused portion of the second IDE, >> uses the newfs command on the drive, and then I get an error message >> stating that it couldn't mount /dev/wd1s0 in /dos: Error (22). > >Apparently FreeBSD objects to one of your DOS drives. Is the one you're >installing from a primary DOS partition, not an extended partition? > >> Do I have to create a special /dos label greater thn or equal to the size >> of my install partition? What am I doing wrong? > >No.../dos is temporary. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >
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