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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!gatech!rutgers!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] help: wd0: cannot find label (no disk label) after install Message-ID: <1992Oct21.150432.16399@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: 21 Oct 92 15:04:32 GMT References: <johng.719547584@weema> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore Lines: 30 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] John Gibbins (johng@cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote: : : After booting the dist.fs floppy and running install, the PC boots off : hard disk but then is unable to mount / due to the above error. : I tried Terry's FAQ list, but failed to find the fix. : The machine is a clone 486DX-50 (not DX2-50) with a 120Mb (112 effective) : Connor disk and a WD clone ethernet card. The disk is partitioned with : 62Mb for DOS and 50Mb for 386BSD. If your DOS is the first partition, and had installed OS-BS, you should not have any problem. Obviously you do not have OS-BS. I suspect you had once installed 386bsd on the entire disk. : : Any help would be greatly appeciated. I am using Terry's dist.fs-noIS to : do the install. : johng : -- : John Gibbins The Western Australian Research Institute : The University of Western Australia for Child Health Ltd ,-_|\ : email: johng@chi.uwa.edu.au GPO Box D184 / \ : Phone: +61-9-3408547 PERTH W.A. 6001 *_,-._/ : Fax: +61-9-3883414 AUSTRALIA v : "Nothing is foolproof as fools are so ingenious" -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet