Ryan La Riviere writes: 

> On 10/8/03 10:32 AM, "Matthew A Kolb" <muk@msu.edu> wrote: 
> 
>> eek. i forgot to mention that you need to mount your root partition
>> and create an /etc/fstab, then umount your root partition, prior to
>> selecting re-install sets.
> 
> I must be doing something wrong since I'm still having issues. 
> 
> I had created the paritions and newfs'd them.  But when I run the installer
> to re-isntall the sets, I get: 
> 
> 'Your file system /dev/wd0g was not successfully mounted.  Upgrade aborted.' 
> 
> My /etc/fstab on the root partition is as follows:
> /dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1
> /dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/wd0g /usr ffs rw 1 2 
> 
> Everything looks fine.  I even looked at the partition map using pdisk and
> it looks fine there.  The only issue I'm running into is newfs giving a
> minor error after it is done. 
> 
> #newfs /dev/wd0g
> Warning: 624 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
> Formatting stuff...
> newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument
> newfs: /dev/wd0g: can't rewrite disk label 
> 
> I get the same error for /dev/wd0a and /dev/wd0g but both mount manually
> just fine.  fsck doesn't find any problems either. 
> 
>

It's my crummy directions.  You *must* umount /dev/wd0a AND /dev/wd0g
(and any other partition you mounted) before you try to re-install the
sets.  you don't need to worry about the disklabel error messages either,
fwiw.  this stuff is documented in INSTALL btw. 

./muk 

 

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m. kolb  <muk@msu.edu>