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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!nic.hookup.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD with MFM disks? Message-ID: <wilko.759747597@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 28 Jan 94 08:59:57 GMT References: <CJusGC.A47@specgw.spec.co.jp> <759404599snz@brixham.demon.co.uk> <13069@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <2i90cc$ekt@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 27 nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <13069@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, Jerome A Marella <mopar+@pitt.edu> wrote: >>Has anyone had problems installing FreeBSD with MFM disks? I have a 386sx25 >>with a 68M Maxtor and a 23M Kyocera drive (Not a lot but I don't have the cash >>to upgrade and get more :( Anyway while trying to install FreeBSD last night >>everything was going fine until it started to make the root filesystem on the >>disk (Maxtor). It didn't give any errors other the the no disk label error. >If it didn't give any error other than the no disklabel error what's the >problem? What happened when it started to make the root filesystem on the >disk? And yes, I have a 386/16 with an oldie 40Mb ST506 disk. Installation of 1.0.2 went well, apart from the fact that the install procedure didn't 'bad144' the badblocks correctly into the badblock admin in the disk. So, it isn't impossible ;-) But more info on the actual problem is needed to determine what goes wrong. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands