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From: blood@chinook.halcyon.com (Eric Blood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Installing to second SCSI drive
Date: 1 Aug 1994 12:34:41 GMT
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In article <31c115$i8p@news.halcyon.com>,
Eric Blood <blood@coho.halcyon.com> wrote:
>I just converted my system to all SCSI (no more IDE) and now have
>space to reinstall FreeBSD.  I have and Adaptec 1542CF with a 500 (ID#0)
>meg and 330 (ID#1) meg drives (both Maxtor).  I have DOS/WINDOWS on the
>500 and I want to install FreeBSD on the the 330.  On booting from the 
>kcopy_ah.flp, the SCSI controller is recognized and so are the two disks.
>Now comes the problems.  When asked where to install, this is what I get:
>
>Install onto which drive [sd0] sd1
>
>Disk sd1 is of device type sd.
>
>Examining device /dev/rsd1d...
>uid0 on /: file system full
>/: writefailed, file system full
>
>Can't open /dev/rsd1d for reading!
>Hm - we can't seem to read that drive.
>
>Are you sure that SCSI is the correct type?
>
>First question, is it possible that there is no rsd1d device and if there
>isn't how do I create one in the /dev directory on the floppy?  So, I 
>continue to see what happens:
>
>Labeling disk... done.
>
>Init root...
>
>newfs: /dev/rsd1a: no such file or directory
>/dev/sd1a on /mnt: no such file or directory
>
>Second question, how should label the disk?  There is some mention in 
>the FAQ about the native vs DOS values.  If I'm going to keep the 330
>disk all FreeBSD, but use something like os-bs to boot, do I need to
>use the native or DOS values?

I still could use some help, please.

Some more info.  I'm using FreeBSD 1.1.5's kcopy_ah.flp.  I tried
installing it on the the first disk behind the DOS partition, but
the same errors occured except this time for sd0.  Any ideas?
--
Eric V. Blood
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