Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:21:49 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@iquest.com> To: dkelly@vespucci.iquest.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2.0.5-ALPHA via NFS Message-ID: <199506030021.TAA27887@vespucci.iquest.com>
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I have tried several times to install the bleeding-edge 2.0.5-ALPHA via NFS from a local SGI workstation. It hangs with the message: "Loading root floppy from t_rex:/disk9/dkelly/2.0.5-ALPHA" Alt-F2's last comment is "DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file" Nosing around I saw the message suggesting there was a debugging shell on console 4... Oh yes! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Maybe it will do some good in this instance. Sure enough, /nfs is a mount of the directory described above. And I can happily browse around in t_rex. "df -k" lists my filesystems. An "ls /mnt" says /mnt isn't there. Same holds true for "/mnt/*" But doggone, /nfs works just peachy. Maybe I ought to run diskless? Checking again, it says /mnt is /dev/wd0a. Hmm. My FreeBSD stuff is supposed to be on slice 2, /dev/wd0s2a, b for swap, f for /usr, g for /usr/src. All but / seem right. The first slice is (was) supposed to be a DOS partition. It appears ok. I totally deleted my old FreeBSD FDISK partitions and started over with this installation. So, any suggestions? -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@iquest.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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