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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!info.ucla.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for -mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: request for help (fs crash) Date: 5 Sep 1996 16:52:09 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <50msv9$94@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <50geg7$13l8@msunews.cl.msu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Boris Gelfand (bg@cps.msu.edu) wrote: : now, my problem: i can't use the fixit floppy because once : the boot floppy loads, i'm unable to mount any more floppies. : this is likely because the floppy is a pcmcia plug-in type : and works on the first shot to boot but then fbsd doesn't : get fdc0 registered correctly and it's all down-hill from there. : the way i installed was to boot from the boot flop and then : install from a small DOS partition that i have on my hard disk. Can you copy the fixit floppy to your DOS partition in the same way that you did previously with the FreeBSD dist ? If that's possible (say you have /dos/fixit.flp available), you can then "vnconfig -c /dev/vn0 /dos/fixit.flp" followed by "mount /dev/vn0a /mnt".... voila ! You'll probably have to MAKEDEV vn0. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....