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From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot mount root during install?
Date: 17 May 1995 21:05:42 GMT
Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>I tell it hd(1,a)/kernel (I'm reporting from memory here, so I may
...
>Could you also try this with (you don't specify what kind of drives you have)
>wd(1,a)/kernel or sd(1,a)/kernel?

wd(1,a)/kernel does the trick.  Thanks.  FreeBSD is now installed!

--Tim Smith