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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!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 with MFM disks? Date: 27 Jan 1994 18:15:40 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2i90cc$ekt@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CJusGC.A47@specgw.spec.co.jp> <759404599snz@brixham.demon.co.uk> <13069@blue.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <13069@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, Jerome A Marella <mopar+@pitt.edu> wrote: >Has anyone had problems installing FreeBSD with MFM disks? I have a 386sx25 >with a 68M Maxtor and a 23M Kyocera drive (Not a lot but I don't have the cash >to upgrade and get more :( Anyway while trying to install FreeBSD last night >everything was going fine until it started to make the root filesystem on the >disk (Maxtor). It didn't give any errors other the the no disk label error. If it didn't give any error other than the no disklabel error what's the problem? What happened when it started to make the root filesystem on the disk? >It looks like the partitions are set up correctly using the fdisk, but I can't >seem to find out what the problem is. Does anyone have any ideas? So what's the problem? -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.