Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem

sd1d works!  The system installs the sets and boots properly.  Great work!

David Ross
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Brownlee" <[email protected]>
To: "David Ross" <[email protected]>
Cc: "T. Makinen" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem


> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, David Ross wrote:
>
>> Ok, just tried this.  I get:
>> http://i40.tinypic.com/j7awb8.jpg
>>
>> So I think that /dev/sd1 is not what I want.  I tried sd1a, sd1c and I 
>> think rsd1c and got different error messages but no success.
>>
>> (The sets are located on the SCSI disk with ID 1.  It's gemdos and they 
>> live in c:\gemdos\sets.  In the menu system I set the base dir to 
>> "gemdos" and the path to "/sets".)
>
>  Can you break out of sysinst and test the following:
>
>  "disklabel sd1" - you should see the list of partitions, hopefully
>  one of them will be the gemdos one
>
>  Then "mount_gemdos /dev/sd1X /mnt", replacing X with each of the
>  partitions listed in the disklabel until one of them works (hoping
>  one will), then "umount /dev/sd1X" for that partition.
>
>  If one of the mount commands works, then run sysinst giving that
>  sd1X
>
>  If none do... hmmm, can you send me the output of disklabel?
>
> -- 
>  David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --
>