From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 30 12:36:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA13628 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 12:36:40 -0700 Received: from junior.wariat.org (ernest@junior.wariat.org [192.147.147.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA13617 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 12:36:37 -0700 Received: (from ernest@localhost) by junior.wariat.org (8.6.10/8.6.12) id PAA18824; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:36:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:36:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ernest L. Lane" To: Terry Lambert cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install questions In-Reply-To: <199509280018.RAA11377@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I emailed a question about the syquest drive that I am attempting to > > install FreeBSD 2.0.5 upon. The question involved the software reading > > the setup of the drive incorrectly. A message was returned to the effect > > that I should setup the software to use the true conditions of the drive. > > The situation is that I was doing this, but the results are that the > > softwared does not load onto the drive. I am able to install Unixware > > 2.0 and linux distributions without difficulty. > > Is there a file or some directions that can help me through the setup? > > You are doing a peculiar thing. > > You will need to describe the failure in more detail before you will > be able to get a resonable answer. > > Where does the install stop? > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > I'll try to give a clean understanding of what my problem has been with the installation process. The software wants to see my drive as 2048/16/32 in lieu of 1024/16/32 as it actually happens to be. The fdisk editor is very confusing and I wonder if I'm getting it correct. I change the geometry of the drive to 1024/16/32 and setup to use the entire drive for the system. I move on to setup the drive as follows: wdos1a / 20mb wdos1b swap 20mb wd0s1e /usr 216mb I select to use the MBR Master Boot Record The software installation starts and I get the following messages: 1 "Error mount /mnt/dev/wdos1e on /mnt/usr -- invalid argument 2 "Write failure on transfer! (wrote 1 byte of 10240 bytes) 3 "Unable to transfer the bin distribution for ..... 4. "Unable to transfer the manpages ..... 5. "Unable to transfer the dict ....... etc...................... etc........................ etc........................ I expected the installation to be different than linux, but I get the idea that the software will not install on an ide Syquest drive. I have installed Linux, Unixware, Windows95 and Dos 6.22. I have unsuccessful in setting up the system to use OS/2 Warp. I assume that this software is like OS/2 to this system. If I am not doing something correctly, please let me know. Thank you in advance. Ernest