Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:29:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Sebastien Maraux <smaraux@cpc.westminster.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201228001.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990416111147.1880A-100000@seth.cpc.wmin.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Sebastien Maraux wrote:
> I'm a french student (so, sorry for my bad english), and I'm trying to
> make an automate install of FreeBSD from network.
>
> But I have many problems:
>
> -sysinstall doesn't recognize my harddrive, (on some of my stations)
> whereas it is probe at the boot:
>
vvvvv Is this right? That's barely enough space for a decent
system.
> wd0 :325MB (666600 sectors), 1010 cyls, 12 heads, 55 S/T, 512 B/S
> (but I can't mount it with mount -t ufs /dev/wd0c /...)
You may have to specify a slice, like /dev/wd0s1c.
> -When I work on stations with 2 floppy drives, sysinstall freeze after
> asking me which of them it must use.
Try pulling one floppy out.
> -On some stations, sysinstall is unable to mount the floppy, whereas it's
> an msdos floppy, and I can mount it with the shell
No clue. Hop over to the ALT-F2 debug console and report any messages you
see.
> For the moment, I have a bootp / tftp / NFS server which works fine (
> with 3.1-release) and the only problem is to make sysinstall load the
> install.cfg correctly and
> correctly probe hard drives and floppy drives.
> I aim at mounting the rootfs (from a 2.2.8-release) by NFS, and executing
> sysinstall (of the 3.1-release, but it's roughly the same) with a config
> file (install.cfg)
Doug White
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