Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, David Ross wrote:

> Ok, just tried this.  I get:
> http://i40.tinypic.com/j7awb8.jpg
>
> So I think that /dev/sd1 is not what I want.  I tried sd1a, sd1c and I think 
> rsd1c and got different error messages but no success.
>
> (The sets are located on the SCSI disk with ID 1.  It's gemdos and they live 
> in c:\gemdos\sets.  In the menu system I set the base dir to "gemdos" and the 
> path to "/sets".)

        Can you break out of sysinst and test the following:

        "disklabel sd1" - you should see the list of partitions, hopefully
        one of them will be the gemdos one

        Then "mount_gemdos /dev/sd1X /mnt", replacing X with each of the
        partitions listed in the disklabel until one of them works (hoping
        one will), then "umount /dev/sd1X" for that partition.

        If one of the mount commands works, then run sysinst giving that
        sd1X

        If none do... hmmm, can you send me the output of disklabel?

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