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From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: Installation of 2.1.5 off DOS directory
Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org,
        John Bowman <desslock@ix.comcat.com>,
        Doug White <dwhite@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
>