From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jul 23 00:51:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA24784 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 00:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA24754; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 00:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA05028; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:50:55 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA12198; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:50:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA09419; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:36:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607230736.JAA09419@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: installation fails To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:36:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9607230047.AA11383=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl> from "Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl" at "Jul 23, 96 02:47:08 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > As far as I can see, they are not satisfactory for a more basic reason: > 1) The install floppy does not seem to react to the -a or -r flags. It doesn't react to -a (it's not ``generic''). It should react to -r, but that's certainly of no use for you, since the preconfigured root device is wd0. > 2) This `configure' activity you refer to sounds suspiciously like > compiling a kernel. I don't know how to do this. Read the handbook. It's also available on the Web. > [A feeble attempt using the fixit floppy and > mount /dev/sd1a /mnt; mount /mnt/dev/sd1f /mnt/usr > PATH=/mnt/bin:/mnt/sbin:/mnt/usr/bin:$PATH > cd sys > make > fails on "make: no ld.so", and at first sight I couldn't find ld.so > either. Every other program not on the floppy fails in the same way.] You can "chroot /mnt" from the fixit floppy. If there's no chroot binary, execute it as /mnt/usr/sbin/chroot. (This assumes you've got your partitions mounted below /mnt on the fixit floppy, in exact the same manner as it would be mounted standalone.) You wrote that you've got experience with Unix, so i assumed things like this are obvious for you, sorry. > sd0s2a partition `a' (presumably bootable) of second > slice on third SCSI disk, slice has a BSD label > > You don't mean first SCSI disk? sd0 is the first SCSI disk, yes. Confusion of mine. > ... have a BSD label (i.e., can be a MS-Dog slice) > > I never understood why people cannot be sufficiently open-minded > to spell the names of their opponents correctly. Maybe this is a GNUism? It's not an opponent, but a common pun. ;-) I could have written ``MS-Doof'' (a very common pun here), but i'm afraid you wouldn't have got it... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)