On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Schnubbi wrote:

>hi everybody,
>
>i want to install viva miniroot.fs and i only have one harddisk...
>
>so when i chose "install netbsd on hard disk"
>
>i get the mesage
>"
>the root device is not mounted. please mount it.
>your selected target disk sd0 also holds the current
>root device. i need to know whether iīm currently running out of the target root
>(sd0a), or out of a alternate root(say, in sd0b, your swap partition). i canīt
>tell unless you mounted the root from which you booted read and write
>"
>
>
>this does say me nothing :-(((
>can someone help me please?

Escape to a shell, and mount the partition that holds the miniroot. If 
this is your swap partition on sd0b, then:
# mount /dev/sd0b /

Should suffice.

Exit the shell and try the install again.

>
>thx a lot,
>david
>

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