From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 00:57:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA28076 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:57:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiley.csusb.edu (wiley.csusb.edu [139.182.2.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA28069 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:57:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wwong@localhost) by wiley.csusb.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) id AAA26679; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:56:45 -0800 From: William Wong Message-Id: <199611150856.AAA26679@wiley.csusb.edu> Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE NFS install problems To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:56:45 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Nov 13, 96 05:34:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, I have a very curious question concerning the line below that I have copied from the message below for convenience: > > Error mounting sunbeam:/u/export/FreeBSD on /dist: No such file or directory ( Where did this come from? I do remember writing to questions a while back asking why it takes a second commit to get the install process started over secure NFS. I hope the above line was part of the message that I sent out a while back. If it isn't, I would like to know who's system sunbeam belongs to. To make further assumptions (a bad thing), if I didn't write the above line and the machine doesn't belong to anybody else, who is mounting my machine? I don't remember setting it up as a slave server... It's not that I discourage such sharing of resources. On the contrary, but our subnet is already overwhelmed. William Wong wwong@wiley.csusb.edu > > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Roger Buttiens wrote: > > > - my system mounts and installs the CD after a second commit attempt > > as in mail below, but the system can't boot. It loops while > > displaying : F1 . . . BSD with intervals of 5-10 seconds. > > The second problem is indicitive of a geometry problem. Try putting a DOS > partition on the disk, then deleting it and installing FreeBSD over it > from sysinstall. > > > I have this annoying problem of error messages showing up when I boot up the > > machine using the boot floppy and trying to do an NFS install. I'm trying > > to install 2.1.5-RELEASE. In options, I chose secure NFS because I'm > > trying to mount off of a SUN workstation. I go through everything and then > > do a commit. After the filesystem has been created and some files off of the > > boot floppy has been copied, I get the error message: > > Error mounting sunbeam:/u/export/FreeBSD on /dist: No such file or directory ( > > Can you mount the disk on another system? > > > My question is, is this normal? Are the files in /etc updated? My screen > > saver doesn't seem to work (kick in after the specified time interval). > > That was the first thing I noticed. I then tried to directly mount from > > FreeBSD.cdrom.com and got the same thing. This didn't used to happen with > > 2.1.0-RELEASE. > > /etc is not changed, so any selected options didn't take effect. > > I would suggest: > > 1. Making sure the system in question can NFS mount volumes. > 2. Making sure ANYONE can mount the volume in question. > 3. Trying an FTP install, mounting the disk under > /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE/ and setting FTP Error to 'retry' in the > options screen of sysinstall. > 4. A DOS partition install. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > >