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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD Epsilon Installation Date: 1 Nov 1993 17:45:47 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2b3i0b$2cg@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <SCOLLORA.4.2CD17C30@ux1.lmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <SCOLLORA.4.2CD17C30@ux1.lmu.edu>, Sal Collora <SCOLLORA@ux1.lmu.edu> wrote: >Hello all.... > >I am installing FreeBSD Epsilon off the floppies and I am getting an >error where the disklabel isn't being written. I totally erased everything >off the disk. I wiped the boot record clean, and told FreeBSD install to >use the entire drive. > >It says Labelling Drive...Done, but when the machine reboots, it says >that the wd0 label doesn't exist so it can't copy the kernel to the drive. Please try the kc-altwd-floppy image in the floppies directory in the final distribution and see if that helps you. We are testing a different wd driver which fixed those types of problems on the machines I have access to, so it likely that it may fix your problems. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me