Subject: Re: More (Yet again) IIci Troubles
To: ayeats <ayeats@ne.mediaone.net>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/17/1999 21:00:03
Try:
mount /dev/sd0g /usr
Note the spacing!
Usage:
mount special mount-point
special is the device node, ie, the g partition on drive sd0
mount-point is where it gets mounted, on the /usr directory
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, ayeats wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> On my mac IIci, I formatted all the drives, partitioned them in this
> fashion and made the filesystems.
>
> -Internal Harddrive (Id 0)
> -USR
>
> -EXTERNAL Harddrive (Id 2)
> -ROOT
> -SWAP
>
> Then I went in to the installer. It did it's thing and I went to the file
> meny and selected Build Devices. It did its thing and eventually stopped.
> Then I selected mini shell and it presented me with
>
> >
>
> Then I did
>
> > disklabel
>
> I found that my USR partition was sd0g so, noticing that it was the same
> in the instructions typed:
>
> > mount /dev/sd0g/usr
>
> and it confronted me with:
>
> usage mount device mount_point
>
> I fiddled and tried everything from
>
> > mount sd0g /dev/sd0g/usr
>
> to
>
> > mount sd0g
>
> to
>
> > mount sd0g /
>
> etc.
>
> NOTHING WORKED!
>
> Please someone help me, After my trials and tribulations with the ram and
> hard drives, I don't want to be stopped by a lack of knowledge about the
> usage and meaning behind the mount command.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Andrew
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> go to:
>
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>
>
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