From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 12:33:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF9A14BCF for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01356; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:29:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:29:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Sebastien Maraux Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with sysinstall In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message