Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23850; Sat, 30 Sep 95 18:43:25 EDT Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20514; Sat, 30 Sep 95 18:42:57 EDT Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA21579 ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:40:04 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA21492 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:38:34 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA21487 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:38:32 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA01242; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:38:07 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199509302238.PAA01242@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: install questions To: ernest@apk.net (Ernest L. Lane) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Ernest L. Lane" at Sep 30, 95 03:36:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1597 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 > >