On Sun, November 11, 2018 4:28 pm, Andrew Lemin wrote: > > 4b) Mount new vnd1c device (this is where I'm stuck) > > ****** Here is where I get lost. All the guides refer only to using > install.iso (whos 'a:' and 'c:' partitions are ISO9660 filetypes - for CD > based installs), but I need to use the install.fs (for USB based installs) > ****** > > fw1# mount /dev/vnd1c /mnt > mount_ffs: /dev/vnd1c on /mnt: Invalid argument > fw1# mount -t cd9660 /dev/vnd1c /mnt > mount_cd9660: /dev/vnd1c on /mnt: Invalid argument > fw1# mount -t msdos /dev/vnd1c /mnt > mount_msdos: /dev/vnd1c on /mnt: not an MSDOS filesystem > fw1# mount -t ext2fs /dev/vnd1c /mnt > mount_ext2fs: /dev/vnd1c on /mnt: Input/output error > > As you can see, none of the the types I know about are working? >
Perhaps the filesystem type isn't the problem. > bsd1# disklabel vnd1 > # /dev/rvnd1c: > type: vnd > disk: vnd device > label: fictitious > duid: e5445c1e269855f0 > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 100 > tracks/cylinder: 1 > sectors/cylinder: 100 > cylinders: 7382 > total sectors: 738240 > boundstart: 1024 > boundend: 737280 > drivedata: 0 > 16 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 736256 1024 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16142 > c: 738240 0 unused > i: 960 64 MSDOS > > I cannot work out what the filesystem should be? It shows as 'unused' > here. > c isn't a real partition. It represents the whole disk. Read the disklabel output again.
