Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:56:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> Cc: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting problem when installing 2.2.7 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808071355530.15104-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35CAF688.BABD653A@graphnet.com>
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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > Hi, > > I just added the hard drive, and decided to reinstall. I booted off the > floppy for 2.2.7 and went through the pre-installation stuff. It newfs'd > the new disk (WD Caviar 8912Cyl, 15H, 63S = 4.3G), and then gave me this > message: > > Error mounting /mnt/dev/wd1s1e on /mnt/usr1: Invalid argument. (100%) Did you actually wipe out the old partition, or just install over it? Now that it's newfs'd, it's totally wiped, so delete the FreeBSD partition and reinstall from scratch. > Now I feel like a fool for wiping out 2.2.6.... Yeah, you should have upgraded and read http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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