Thanks a LOT! You were absolutely right! It's sd2g, not sd2a...thanks SO
much!

Now I can go attempt to install X on the Zip ;)

Thanks again everyone!

otaku@hick.com

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Michael Peters wrote:

> 
>   Had a similar problem not too long ago.  Run disklabel on /dev/sd2a, and
> see what partitions are on the disk... should be like sd2a, sd2b, sd2g or
> something... you want to mount not sd2a, but one of the others, like sd2g.
> When you run fsck, run it on the same partition you'd mount (indicated by
> disklabel... indirectly), so in my example you'd run fsck on sd2g.
> 
>   Here's a portion of disklabel's output in my case:
> 7 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:       32      144   unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 0*)
>   b:        2   196606   unknown                        # (Cyl.   95*-
> 95*)
>   c:   196608        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 95)
>   g:   196430      176    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0*-
> 95*)
> 
>   if you look thru these (ignoring the funky linewraps) you can see
> /dev/sd1a thru sd1c are unknown or unused, only sd1g will mount or fsck
> properly. =)
> 
> Hope this helps! =)
> 
> --MDP
> 
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