Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!tulane!wupost!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!donau!duteca.et.tudelft.nl!franky From: franky@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Frank W. ten Wolde) Subject: 386BSD-0.1 Install problem: can't relabel disk, etc... Message-ID: <1992Jul28.200625.11771@donau.et.tudelft.nl> Keywords: 386bsd Sender: news@donau.et.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: duteca.et.tudelft.nl Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:06:25 GMT Lines: 68 I'm having trouble installing 386BSD-0.1 to my system. The 386BSD tiny floppy boots fine. When I type: # install -debug I get the following response: bios finds: cyl 1001 heads 15 sectors 17 Partitions: offset size type flag 0 0 0 0 153765 101235 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MB free. You do not have enough free space on your drive to install 386 BSD in a new partition. Yet, I have appr 73 Mb free on my ST1144AT drive. (Partition #2 contains my Linux OS :-). When I prepare a partition of type A5 on my disk and try to install again (install -debug) I get: bios finds: cyl 1001 heads 15 sectors 17 Partitions: offset size type flag 17 153748 a5 0 153765 101235 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Do you want to install <...> disk drive's 386BSD partition? (y/n) y making root size 143055 offset 17 making swap size 10000 offset 143265 label written at sector 17 High level formatting of 386 BSD disk storage: ... ... super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, ... ... ... ... , 134704, 138816 newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): No such process newfs: /dev/rwd0a: can't rewrite disk label and the installation fails again. Can someone please explain? I also tries the fixit.fs boot floppy and used disklabel. Then I get errors about not being able to find/write the disk label and I get '/dev/rwd0a: invalid argument' errors. My system is: 386/33 (unknown chipset) 4 Mb core no NCP ST1144AT (drive 1: 125Mb) ST251AT (drive 2: 43Mb) SC499 (tape controller) Thanks! -Frank ten Wolde -- ############################################################################# # Frank W. ten Wolde (PA3FMT) | E-mail: franky@duteca.et.tudelft.nl # Delft University of Technology | # The Netherlands |