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From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: More installation woes...
Message-ID: <1992Jul20.120525.27756@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Date: 20 Jul 92 12:05:25 GMT
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I copied dist.fs from my site to a SCO system,
did a dd if=dist.fs of=/dev/rfd096ds15 and then booted the
floppy in a 386SX w/ FPU 4MB Maxtor 7120 120 MB system.
install gave the following sermon:
It appears that 386BSD has already been installed.
Do you want to re-install over it? (y/n) y
Do you want to install 386BSD on the entire drive? (y/n) y
You realize ....
Do you *still* want to install ... y
High level formatting of 386BSD disk storage:
Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (25) >= data blocks (17) in last
note** cylinder group. This implies 280 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
/dev/rwd0a:232960 sectors in 832 cylinders of 8 tracks, 35 sectors
119.3MB in 52 cyl groups (16 c/g, 2.29MB/g, 576 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
...
...
...
Mounting 386BSD filesystem.
mount: /dev/wd0a: Input/output error
Could not mount filesystem. Installation failed.
Then I reformatted my MaxTor drive to override the existing 0.0 release -
OK I could also have done that by erasing the first sectors but
somehow a cat >/dev/rwd0a did not work ).
The Input/Output error persisted.
Then I changed drive parameters to 1024 7 34 (I had 872 8 35 ) and now the
above Input/Output error disappeared.
But I still got an input/output error when I want to ls /mnt when I mount
/dev/wd0a to /mnt
...
...
Mounting 386BSD filesystem.
Installing files from installation floppy
cd: can't cd to /mnt
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OK, I abandoned this route and tried my WDC Caviar drive. This time
it worked. But I still get this warning that 280 sectors are not used.
(see above note**)
----
Next thing:
I thought I could install the rest via ftp, but it does not work.
My attached ne1000 (ne0 irq 2 io 300 no dma iobase d0000) gets recognized
but when I do an
ifconfig ne0 <host-ip> broadcast <net>.0.0
I get spurious messages which look like debugging code left in the
driver. This would not do harm if ftp would work but it doesn't.
I get something like
neinitstartstartartstart
upon the ifconfig command
and further
stststst
stststst
until ftp times out.
Trying to use another network card fails also because 386bsd does not seem
to recognize the 8013EP (16-bit) card. This has been already a problem with
0.0 release and I tweaked the code then to ignore the checksums (which I did
not know then).
I thought I could install this time without rebuilding the kernel. Sigh!
I love 386bsd but it seems that there is still a lot of work left to do
by the mundane user.
BTW, when will the swap space be created during installation when I decide to use the whole disk for 386bsd? I thought this had to be done in advance prior to installing.
--Christoph Kukulies
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