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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:11:43 -0600 (CST)
From:      Forrest Cahoon <forrest@abstractfactory.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install problem -- can't mount disk
Message-ID:  <20021030.231143.78732582.forrest@abstractfactory.org>

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I posted about my attempt to install FreeBSD a while ago; you can see
my last message at

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=258395+0+archive/2002/freebsd-questions/20021027.freebsd-questions

I was prompted by a suggestion sent to me personally to give FreeBSD
one more try on this box, and I discovered something totally strange.

I went through the install again, and before rebooting, used
Ctrl-Alt-F4 to switch to the shell and investigate things.

This is what I found:

# df
Filesystem     512-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/md0c            8439    5501    2854    66%    /
/dev/ad0s1a        257980   68528  168816    29%    /mnt
/mnt/dev/ad0s1f    515996     124  474596     0%    /mnt/tmp
/mnt/dev/ad0s1g   9192684  165416 8291856     2%    /mnt/usr
/mnt/dev/ad0s1e   2064284     224 1898920     0%    /mnt/var
/dev/acd0c        1249472 1249472       0   100%    /dist
#

Ok, this looks straightforward.  The target disk is mounted on /mnt
and some stuff has been copied to each of the partitions.  The CD I'm
installing from is mounted on /dist.

But when I try to see what's actually on /mnt:

# ls -alR /mnt
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel  512 Oct  9 12:42 .
drwxr-xr-x   17 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 04:57 ..
#

Where are all the files?  This is truly whack.
Here's some more weirdness:

# umount /mnt/dev/ad0s1e
umount: unmount of /mnt/var failed: No such file or directory
#

Yet, another df will show the same table as above.

Does anyone have any advice for me to try now?
--
forrest@abstractfactory.org

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