Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:36:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian Dean" <brdean@unx.sas.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall broken: can't load config file from floppy Message-ID: <199808190136.VAA06566@dean.pc.sas.com> In-Reply-To: <14048.903484558@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 18, 98 04:55:58 pm"
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> > While installing FreeBSD from today's snap (8/18), I got the following > > error when loading a configuration file from a floppy: > > > > "Error mounting floppy fd0 (/dev/fd0) on /dist : Invalid argument" > > > > The debug screen only said: > > > > "DEBUG: Init floppy called for xxx.cfg distribution" > > I took MSDOSFS out of the GENERIC kernel a few days ago in order to > make the snaps work again - we were out of space. This isn't critical > from the DOS installation code since it doesn't use msdosfs, it uses > stand-alone DOSFS parsing code in sysinstall. Unfortunately, the > corner case here is the floppy mount code which tries UFS then MSDOSFS > as a mount type - it doesn't go through the stand-alone stuff. > > Hmmmm. Is this really critical, or can you put your config file on > a UFS formatted floppy? > > - Jordan It's not that critical, I can put the config file on a UFS floppy. Thanks, -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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