Thanks again for the help, I guess I made somekind of typingmismatch or had
the wrong type of keyboard selected.
Anyway after drinking 2 bottles of beer I succeeded in transferring the
files to the target HD and now it works!!

I think that for newbies like me the best way to install M0n0wall is to use
the installer CD made by Chris and (if you want it to work on an old PC that
does not boot from CD)detach the HD of the old PC and temporary attach it to
a PC that is able to boot from CD and transfer the files.


Met vriendelijke groeten,

Henk Zomer

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Joe Lagreca [mailto:lagreca at gmail dot com]
Verzonden: woensdag 19 oktober 2005 0:06
Aan: Henk Zomer
CC: Chris Buechler; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Onderwerp: Re: [m0n0wall] install problem on compaq 6150e could not find
primary volume description.


I'm not positive, but shouldn't you be writing to the whole drive, and
not just a partition?

Try changing this: "dd of=/dev/ad1" to "dd of=/dev/ad" in this whole
command:
gzcat /usr/m0n0wall/generic-pc-1.11.img | dd of=/dev/ad1 bs=16k

Let me know if that works.

Joe


On 10/18/05, Henk Zomer <henk dot zomer at hetnet dot nl> wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> Ok, I now took the following steps:
>
> On 1 of my other computers which is capable to boot fro a cd, I removed
the
> second HD and replaced it by the HD on which M0n0wall is supposed to run.
> This one has been formatted in FAT32 and is empty.
>
> Then I used your installer CD as boot cd.
> So far so good.
>
> atacontrol list works; second HD is recognized as SEagate which is ok.
> Then I applied this command in 1 line:
>
> gzcat /usr/m0n0wall/generic-pc-1.11.img | dd of=/dev/ad1 bs=16k
>
> then appears the message that the disk is full....
>
> I'm getting a little bit desperate now :-(
>
> What did I do wrong?
>
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
>
> Henk Zomer
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Chris Buechler [mailto:cbuechler at gmail dot com]
> Verzonden: maandag 17 oktober 2005 17:57
> CC: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Onderwerp: Re: [m0n0wall] install problem on compaq 6150e could not find
> primary volume description.
>
>
> On 10/17/05, Henk Zomer <henk dot zomer at hetnet dot nl> wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > Booting the live installer cd gives the message.
> >
>
> that definitely suggests a major issue with the system not being able
> to boot from CD then.  The live installer CD is FreeBSD 5.4, m0n0wall
> is 4.11.  Typically if m0n0wall won't work because of some quirk in
> 4.11, 5.4 will still boot and work fine.  I'd look to the other
> suggestions provided earlier today by Don and Holger.
>
> -Chris
>
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