Subject: Re: Disk drive confusion
To: Howard S Shubs <hshubs@mindspring.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/10/1997 10:06:34
Howard S Shubs wrote:
>
> I'm trying to start actually doing something with MacBSD. To start, I
> figured I'd mount partitions other than the root one, in order to put
> -source- code in and then build a kernel. However, I'm falling down on the
> fist part. When I try to mount a partition as /dev/sd1g, it seems to mount
> but my disk subsequently comes up fried. Er, "g" isn't the whole-disk
> partition, is it? I thought that was "d". Also, I saw the debate as to
> which partition letters come when, but I didn't see how it was resolved.
> Until I can restore the sources, I really can't look it up myself,
> especially since at this point I have no idea where to start looking.
>
> I added a line to fstab like so, after creating /home:
>
> /dev/sd1g /home ffs 1 2
>
> I also tried adding another one, since there was another "misc" A/UX
> partition on the drive:
>
> /dev/sd1h /usr1 ffs 1 2
>
> after creating /usr1. What am I doing wrong?
Did you run Mkfs on either /dev/sd1g or /dev/sd1h? You probably need to,
since I don't think that NetBSD can use a "misc" A/UX partition without it
first being converted by Mkfs.
I hope this helps.
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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