Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:38:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: ernest@apk.net (Ernest L. Lane) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install questions Message-ID: <199509302238.PAA01242@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950930152313.18589B-100000@junior.wariat.org> from "Ernest L. Lane" at Sep 30, 95 03:36:13 pm
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> > 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 firstly: I assume these are wd0 not wdo > 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 always thought the syquest drives were SCSI? apparently not.. can you load a boot floppy from the newest ditribution and try that? > > 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 > >
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