Re: Help with install

[Håkan Olsson <ho@crt.se>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Andrew Falanga wrote:

> It's me again folks.  Well, I decided that it was really stupid of me to
> try installing OpenBSD onto a production computer at work.  Especially,
> since it is my first time.  So, I'm trying to install on an old system
> that I had at home.  A 486dx-33, arcaic I know, but it will suffice.
> Now, here's the problem.  I'm getting the same error here that I was in
> the other attempts, but this time I'm wanting to use the whole disk
> drive for OpenBSD.  I'm not trying to run multiple OS's.  I get the
> error, Error mounting filesystem on /dev/wd0a on /mnt.  What is going
> on?  Please forgive my ignorance.  I am a beginner at the OpenBSD thing.
> 

[I don't know what level of unix experience you have, with this question
 going to tech@ and all, but... here's one theory. :)]

When you edited the disk partition table, did you not create an 'a'
partition? 

During install, when you see this text:

"Initial label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt)"
">                                                      "

Here you should create the _unix_ partitions (inside the DOS/MBR partition
fdisk just created for you, after "use the *entire* disk" etc).

A good example of what to enter and how is in the CD cover manual. I
suggest reading, and following, that.

Here's an example of how it may look when you're done. (Note; this is not
following the cover manual):

(still inside the label editor, i.e 'disklabel')
> p                       (p = print the disklabel)

(some lines describing the disk skipped)

16 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:   131001       63    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16  
  b:   524256   131064      swap                       
  c:  4226725        0    unused        0     0        
  d:  1638300   655320    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16  
  e:   262128  2293620    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16  
  f:  1670977  2555748    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16  

(FYI; I have 'a' as /, 'b' swap, 'd' /usr, 'e' /var, 
 and 'f' as /d (most people call this /home or sth, perhaps))

//Håkan

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