Re: writing cdhdtape to CD

[Anders Hogrelius <ahs%hogrelius.nu@localhost>]

Have you tried to mount the first slice in the image? Something like
 mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt

You should be able to check what slices  are in the image with disklabel 
too.

Cheers,
Anders

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On Thu, 28 May 2009, Ray Phillips wrote:

> Anders:
>
> I can't check the CD at the moment, but the cdhdtape file should be a good 
> place to start...
>
> I think the cdhdtape image file I have is OK, based on the facts that it's 
> the same size as this one:
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0/alpha/installation/diskimage/cdhdtape
>
> (there's not an md5 value for it on ftp.netbsd.org that I can check against) 
> and I can dd it to a hard disk and boot the PWS from that disk successfully.
>
> I've totally failed to mount cdhdtape though.  I guess I'm doing something 
> wrong:
>
> # uname -mrs
> NetBSD 5.0 i386
> #
> # ls -li
> total 3714
> 4659209 -rw-------  1 ray  wheel     1984 Apr 26 16:54 README.files
> 4659210 -rw-------  1 ray  wheel  3776512 Apr 26 16:54 cdhdtape
> #
> # md5 cdhdtape
> MD5 (cdhdtape) = 2165582d6591ca74a9a483c3522e52a8
> #
> # vnconfig -l
> vnd0: not in use
> vnd1: not in use
> vnd2: not in use
> vnd3: not in use
> # vnconfig -v -c vnd0 cdhdtape
> /dev/rvnd0d: 3776512 bytes on cdhdtape
> # vnconfig -l
> vnd0: / (/dev/wd0a) inode 4659210
> vnd1: not in use
> vnd2: not in use
> vnd3: not in use
> # mount /dev/vnd0d /mnt
> mount_ffs: /dev/vnd0d on /mnt: incorrect super block
> # mount_ufs /dev/vnd0d /mnt
> mount_ufs: /dev/vnd0d on /mnt: incorrect super block
> # mount_ffs /dev/vnd0d /mnt
> mount_ffs: /dev/vnd0d on /mnt: incorrect super block
> #
>
> I tried mounting NetBSD-5.0/i386's boot-big.fs file using this approach too 
> as a test, but kept getting this 'incorrect super block' error.  I'll be 
> happy if you can point out my mistake.
>
>
> Ray