Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:36:41 -0700 From: "SysX" <SysX@worldnet.att.net> To: <support@cdrom.com> Cc: "Sas Widjaja" <SysX@worldnet.att.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.7 Installation Message-ID: <19970407043730.AAA25405@sysx>
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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
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