Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

sd1d works!  The system installs the sets and boots properly.  Great work!

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Brownlee" <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: "David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
Cc: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>; <f.g.lukas%web.de@localhost>; 
<port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem


> 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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