Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 23:18:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@ritz.mordor.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960113231339.3959D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <ad1e3a7500021004a35a@[192.0.2.1]>
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On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, Christopher J. Booth wrote:
> I have just purchased the Walnut Creek FreeBSD CD-ROM and a PC. The PC has
> an internal IDE CD_ROM player, from Panasonic, and I can't get it to read
> the disk, although there is no problem with Windows.
Is this a Matsushita/SoundBlaster CD or a IDE/ATAPI?
> I assume that this is
> because the CD-ROM player is unsupported by a FreeBSD driver.
Or just mis/unconfigured.
> But when I
> try to install from the DOS partition I keep getting hung up at the "label
> editor." My hard disk is wd0. I have a small DOS/Windows partition and then
> an extended partition. The remaining space on the hard drive is labeled
> "wd0s3." But I keep getting the following message:
>
> No root device found - you must label a partition as / in the label editor.
>
> I have tried many different combinations trying to follow the guide in the
> help info, but none are accepted. What should my partition be labeled as?
Well, you should have a disklabel that looks something like this (this is
running from memory so help me ...)
wd0 (wd0 info here....)
---
wd0a xxMB UFS Y /
wd0b xxMB SWAP
wd0e xxMB UFS Y /usr
^^^^ These are the mountpoints you need to set.
Use the M command (???) to set the mountpoint on wd0a to '/', wd0e to
'/usr' and so on.
If you're confused, try hitting 'a' to put in the ``defaults''. That
should clarify things. Or try 'H'.
Hope this helps, it's been a while since I've been in install :-)
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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