From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 13 23:18:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA17972 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 23:18:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA17959 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 23:17:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA04090; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 23:18:56 -0800 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 23:18:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Christopher J. Booth" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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