Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:36:00 +1100 From: "Murray Taylor" <mjtlx@ozemail.com.au> To: <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Problems with install Message-ID: <003301c088d3$0db33820$022aa8c0@pc99101401>
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Karen's system A friend is attempting a new installation from my 3.4 CDROM set (still waiting for my new 4.2 set to arrive!) on her Gateway machine with the following hardware mitsumi CDROM FX4010M!B FW AM2A Generic IDE disk type 01 Generic NEC fdd Iomega ZIP 100 Display Adapter NVIDIA RIVA TNT Hard disk controller Intel 8371 AB/EB PCI bus Master IDE controller Network 3COM Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) SCSI Adaptec AVA-1502 SCSI host adapter Shuttle EPAT external atapi adapter Sound Creative Audio PCI (ES 1371, ES 1373) (WDM) Errors ====== After setting up the partitions (several times as she had a few arguments with Windoze needing to be where it wanted to be rather than where she wanted to stick it!), she commenced the install by booting the CDROM, which trogged on fine for a while then produced the following error messages when it needed to mount (remount?) itself to install the binaries distribution. error mounting device /dev/acd0c on /dist: no such file or directory (2) warning: using existing root partition. It will be assumed that you have the appropriate device entries in /dev At this point she cancelled the install and finished up with the Ctrl-Alt-Del three finger salute... My Guesses ========= Based on my "wider" experience of FreeBSD (;-P tongue firmly in cheek) and reading both the GENERIC config on my machine and Gregs book, I believe that the first error is due to the fact that GENERIC doesnt have the mcd driver installed. The second error has me tossed though....?? Questions ========= Could I make a GENERIC with the mcd driver and somehow replace the GENERIC she is using? If so, do I need to build a complete new install set (unknown ground, I've never been near the releases stuff as my poor little 486 DX4-100 melts during buildworld with either a reboot or memory seg faults)? OR Should one of us somehow uproot all our hardware and transport it 25 kilometres so that she can do a network install via a x-over cable? What does the second message mean? TIA mjtlx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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