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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
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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

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