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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!janus.arc.ab.ca!dione.arc.ab.ca!FAN Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Help for installing 386BSD Tiny onto Hard Disk Needed! Message-ID: <1993May12.164414.425@janus.arc.ab.ca> From: fan@dione.arc.ab.ca (ruixin fan) Date: 12 May 93 16:44:14 MDT Reply-To: fan@dione.arc.ab.ca Organization: Alberta Research Council Nntp-Posting-Host: dione.arc.ab.ca Lines: 54 Hi, All, There! I got a problem for installing 386BSD onto hard disk. Here is what I got: 1. I repartitioned my 600M hard disk (it is from AST, but I do not know what type it is, I run PCTOOLS SI.EXE, it says that Hard disk physical drive number is 80h) - 400MB for DOS, and 200MB for 386BSD. 2. I booted-up the system using the Tiny floppy (in the line on hard disk, it wrote: "wd0 <WD1009V - SE1/SE2> at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa"); Everything is O.K so far. 3. I typed "install", and answered those questions, then following long and kind of mess msg coming up on the screen: ---------------------------------------------- wdsetctlr: status 1 error 4 High level formatting of 386BSD disk storage: /dev/rwd0a: 399168 sectors in 99 cylinders of 64 tracks, 63 sector 204.4MB in 7 cyl groups (16c/g, 33.03MB/g, 7552 i/g) Super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, 64608, 129184, 193760, 258336, 322912, 387488 wdsetctlr: status 1 error 4 newfs: ioctr(WDINFO): No such process newfs: /dev/rwd0a: can't rewrite disk label Could not format filesystem. Installation failed. ------------------------------------------------------- Could anybody please tell me how I could install 386BSD onto hard disk properly? What's wrong with it? Any info. would be very much appreciated. Here is my system: AST Premium 486/33E (Intel 486/33DX CPU) with 16MB RAM & 600MB H.D. AST EISA BIOS ATI VGAWONDER XL card & mouse, AST VGA monitor I'm wondering if the EISA card is not supported? I find that EISA could be treated by 386BSD as ISA - I also booted my system up by a floppy. Or my hard disk controller or configuration are not matched with 386BSD? Thanks a lot in advance! Regards, Ray Fan fan@titan.arc.ab.ca