From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 13:45:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11250 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:45:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11163 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:45:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA14685; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:44:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:44:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jeff Rogers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem mounting MSDOS partition In-Reply-To: <199807281205.HAA00035@photon.soltec.net> 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 Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Jeff Rogers wrote: > When I try to use /stand/sysinstall to install xfree86, I want to do so > from the MSDOS partition, the first of two hard drives on my system. > > However, from within sysinstall, when I select media type as an > MSDOS partition, the option that comes up is wdos1, but in my > dmesg, it's listed as wdos0. I don't remember perfectly, unfortunately; > it may be be in dmesg as wdc0 (as opposed to the former). wd0s0 doesn't exist. wd0s1 is the correct slice. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message