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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!news.sprintlink.net!nwnexus!chinook!blood 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 Organization: NWNEXUS, Inc. - Making Internet Easy Lines: 47 Message-ID: <31iq51$sg0@nwfocus.wa.com> References: <31c115$i8p@news.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chinook.halcyon.com 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 The Winky Wooster | 7311 Coal Cr Pkwy SE #E205 | "Kiss my ASCII" blood@halcyon.com | Renton, WA 98059-3172 | (206) 271-6772 Voice/Data