From nobody Sun Mar 23 12:13:16 1997 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA25712; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:13:16 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703232013.MAA25712@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:13:16 -0800 (PST) From: whiz-kidz@pcisys.net To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Cannot do post install mods to UNIX from DOS partition X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 3070 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Cannot do post install mods to UNIX from DOS partition >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: support >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 23 12:20:03 PST 1997 >Closed-Date: Sat Apr 11 08:45:47 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: Sat Apr 11 08:45:58 PDT 1998 >Originator: Art Minneman >Release: 2.1.7 >Organization: Whiz Kidz International >Environment: >Description: I do not have a "compatible" CDROM and am loading bsd as per para 2.1 and have made a FREEBSD directory on my C and D drives (both recognized by the bsd system as wsd0 and wsd1). After logging into UNIX as "root" I do a "/stand/sysinstall" command and tell the system that I want to set media. I set the media to the hard drive and then tell the system that I want to install packages, whereupon I am told that the system cannot find /packages/index and that is that. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" To: whiz-kidz@pcisys.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, GNATS Management , freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/3070: Cannot do post install mods to UNIX from DOS partition Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 16:18:33 -0500 (EST) I had this exact same problem on 2.2R. Here's the workaround: 1) mount -t msdos /dev/ / 2) run /stand/sysinstall and specify your media as 'Existing file system' and point it at your / e.g. in my case mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /cfat Existing file system == /cfat/FreeBSD On Sun, 23 Mar 1997 whiz-kidz@pcisys.net wrote: > > >Number: 3070 > >Category: misc > >Synopsis: Cannot do post install mods to UNIX from DOS partition > >Confidential: no > >Severity: critical > >Priority: high > >Responsible: freebsd-bugs > >State: open > >Class: support > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 23 12:20:03 PST 1997 > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Art Minneman > >Organization: > Whiz Kidz International > >Release: 2.1.7 > >Environment: > >Description: > I do not have a "compatible" CDROM and am loading bsd as per para 2.1 and have made a FREEBSD directory on my C and D drives (both recognized by the bsd system as wsd0 and wsd1). After logging into UNIX as "root" I do a "/stand/sysinstall" command and tell the system that I want to set media. I set the media to the hard drive and then tell the system that I want to install packages, whereupon I am told that the system cannot find /packages/index and that is that. > >How-To-Repeat: > > >Fix: > > >Audit-Trail: > >Unformatted: > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: phk State-Changed-When: Sat Apr 11 08:45:47 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: dead PR >Unformatted: