You need to specify the full path of the device you wish to mount:

	    mount /dev/sd0g /usr

	rather than

	    mount sd0g /usr

	The latter might actually work if you were in the '/dev'
	directory, but it would be a bad idea anyway :)

		David/abs	david@{mono.org,southern.com,mhm-internet.com}

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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Mark Andres wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am in the middle of reinstalling NetBSD on a different hard disk.
> Before, I had all my ufs files on a single root&usr partition.  This time,
> I would like to have separate partitions, but I can't seem to get it to
> work.
> 
> I made file systems for both partitions using Mkfs 1.4.  I am using
> Installer version 1.1c.  I build devices and then go into the mini shell.
> I try to do
> 
> mount sd0g /usr 
> 
> but I always get 
> 
> /usr : No such file or directory
> 
> Here is the tail of my log entry:
> 
> Making device ./dev/ttyp3 (4/3).
> Making device ./dev/ptyp3 (5/3).
> Making device ./dev/grf0 (10/0).
> Making device ./dev/grf1 (10/1).
> Making device ./dev/adb (23/0).
> Done making devices.
> Attempting to create etc/fstab.
> Successfully created etc/fstab.
> > disklabel
> sd0a: Root 'NetBSD Root' at 192 size 200000
> sd0g: Usr 'NetBSD Usr' at 265760 size 865984
> sd0b: Swap 'NetBSD Swap' at 200192 size 65536
> sd0d: Other (APPLE_DRIVER43) 'Maci_ProsoftDriver' at 64 size 128
> sd0e: HFS 'Mac' at 1131744 size 300000
> sd1a: Root 'A/UX Root' at 247816 size 1843200
> sd1b: Swap 'Swap' at 2091016 size 40960
> sd1d: Other (APPLE_DRIVER43) 'Maci_ProsoftDriver' at 96 size 128
> sd1e: HFS 'MacBSD' at 224 size 247592
> > mount sd0g /usr
> /usr : No such file or directory
> > mkdir usr
> > mount sd0g /usr
> /usr : No such file or directory
> > 
> 
> You can see that I have built devices and the disklabel looks OK to me.  I
> tried it with sd0a as a NetBSD Root and NetBSD Root&Usr.  I also tried
> editing the /etc/fstab to add an entry for sd0g on /usr but nothing works.
> 
> Any advice is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Mark Andres                                       Head, Support Dept.
>               GIGANET by Business Network Telecom (BNT)
> E-mail: mark@giganet.net  URL: http://www2.giganet.net/private/users/mark/
>