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From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: good system management resource book & some questions
Date: 25 Jul 1992 21:11:53 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Readers with limited unix system management experience may find
the book UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION HANDBOOK by Evi Nemeth, Garth
Snyder, and Scott Seebass, Prentice Hall 1989 0-13-933441-6 which
sells for $36.00 in our campus bookstore quite helpfull in both
explaining concepts and demonstrating how to apply those concepts
to the setup and management of BSD and AT&T UN*X based systems.
However, even with the help of this book, I have some questions:
o exactly where in either the automated or manual procedure
for installing 386bsd is one supposed to be able to use
disklabel to add badsect to the flags part of the label?
o neither the boot or fixit floppies seem to approve of
trying to create a temporary file for vi to use when
editing the disklabel -- and changing the flag after
the filesystem is created on the partition appears to
destroy the integrity of the filesystem -- at least
changing adding the badsect flag to the disklabel has
the effect of causing my machine to repeatedly reboot.
o when should i use bad 144 to initialize the bad block
table, then dd the raw disk to null & use bad144 again?
Thanks, AJ