On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Robert Malcolm Speed wrote:

[snip]

> Well I cerainly had fun, sorry, I did an event last night (I navigate for
> a rally team) and I'm still on a high...

I go caving/potholing ;-)

> Right then.....
> 
> mount /dev/wd0       produces

nooooo, when you mount a disc you mount <something> <somewhere>, if you miss
either the <something> or the <somewhere> RiscBSD searches /etc/fstab - a
configuration file which specifies where all the filesystems are monunted
(and some other stuff)

try:

mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
	      ^----- the trailing letter is the partition a-h a=root b=swap
e=usr (others can mean other things)

> fstab: /etc/fstab:no such file or directory
> fstab: /etc/fstab:no such file or directory         (yes twice)
> mount: /dev/wd0:unknown special file or file system

See above - the root disc has no /etc/fstab! (this is not a bug ;-)

> df -k      produces
> 
> filesystem     1k-blocks    used    avail   capacity     mounted on
> root-device       1379      1377     2          100%         /
> kernfs               1         1     0          100%         /kern

youve got 2k free on the floppy ;-)

> mount     produces
> 
> root-device on /      type ufs (local,read-only)
> kernfs      on /kern  type kernfs(local)

and / is a ramdisk - the kernfs stuff is a bit like an image filing ssytem
- it contains usefull info about the kernel, ignore it

> disklabel /dev/wd0c    produces
> 
> 
> non-adfs offset = 000f6570
> RiscBSD partition @ 000f6570
> # /dev/wd0c
> type: ST506
> disk: mywd
> Label:
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 16
> sectors/cylinder: 1008
> cylinders: 1656
> total sectors: 1669248
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
> drive data: 0
> 
> 5 partitions:
> #       size    offset   fstype   [fsize   bsize   cpg
>   a:   50400   1009008   4.2BSD     1024    8192    16  # (cyl. 1001-1050)
>   b:   50400   1059408   SWAP                           # (cyl. 1051-1100)
>   c: 1669248         0   unused        0       0        # (cyl. 0-1655)
>   d:  660240         0   unused        0       0        # (cyl. 0-654)
>   e:  559440   1109808   4.2BSD     1024    8192    16  # (cyl. 1101-1655)

ok - you have valid a,b and e partitons

> That's basically it, oh, I've found out, it's the 1.1 relase not 1.2, and
> I'm using 3598 kernal, I've got 4444 and 4554, but they both give a
> greyish sort of screen with rolling bricks (thats what they look like 
> to me anyway) after about 1/2 page of text, I'm in Uni now and I
> can't remember what the last message said before the screen goes doolally,
> I think it was possibly syncing disks - I know nothing comes up about
> hydra() or podules or the different terminals using the vt220VIDC and all
> that jazz.....

try the 1.2 release...

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