Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:36:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ernest L. Lane" <ernest@apk.net>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: install questions
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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