From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 6 21:38:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA20200 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net (mailhost.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA20188 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sysx ([207.147.233.95]) by mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with ESMTP id AAA25405; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 04:37:33 +0000 From: "SysX" To: Cc: "Sas Widjaja" , Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.7 Installation Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:36:41 -0700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19970407043730.AAA25405@sysx> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Apr 7, 1997 Dear Support Team: I am experiencing some difficulty in installing the FreeBSD that I got from you onto my computer. I have two hard drives and one atapi CD drive on my system. The first hard drive is 1.6 Gbytes and the second hard drive is 3.2 Gbytes. On the first hard drive I installed DOS and FreeBSD, The first 402 Mbytes is allocated for DOS and the second partition 1.2 Gbytes is allocated for FreeBSD and third partition about 2 Mbytes is allocated for Boot Manager for dual boot. Since I have an atapi CD drive so I could not access the CD drive yet. To make FreeBSD installation work, I formatted the second hard drive with DOS and copied FreeBSD CD onto it. I was able to install FreeBSD from this DOS partition however I was able to install the packages from "PACKAGES/ALL" directory because the FreeBSD doesn't recognize the DOS partition where the packages is copied to. After boot to FreeBSD I tried to mount the DOS partition to manually install the packages, I issued the mount command such as: $ mount /dev/wd1s1 /home, the system responded with: /dev/wd1s1 on /usr/home: incorrect super block. --> what kind of parm is needed for DOS partition? Would you please let me know the correct command to mount: 1. A hard drive DOS partition (/dev/wd1s1) 2. Drive A: DOS formatted floppy (fd0 ?) 3. Line printer on parallel port 1 (lpt0 ?) Your help are sincerely appreciated. Thank you Sas Widjaja SysX@worldnet.att.net