From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 20:38:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA01074 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01069; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA02858; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:38:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: John Bowman cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of 2.1.5 off DOS directory In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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