On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 11:54:01PM -0500, Brian Stark wrote:
> [...] 
> am prompted to select the location of the files I selected
> the option for an unmounted file system. Following what
> is in the installation notes for the i386 port (item 14,
> entitled, "Installation from an unmounted filesystem"), 
> I specified wd0g for the device, ffs for the filesystem,
> and distrib as the directory. When I tried to continue
> with these settings it failed and I saw the message:
> "distrib could not be mounted on local device wd0g"

Maybe you should have choosen "mounted file system" here.
I syspect at this point /dev/wd0g is already mounted.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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