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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12019 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2377 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!nwnexus!coho!blood From: blood@coho.halcyon.com (Eric Blood) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Installation of NetBSD and FreeBSD on to SCSI failing Date: 3 Aug 1994 06:45:58 GMT Organization: NWNEXUS, Inc. - Making Internet Easy Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31nef6$pcc@nwfocus.wa.com> References: <31mu7v$5sg@nwfocus.wa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com I got a suggestion to try fdisk on the FreeBSD floppy. When I did a fdisk -i /dev/sd0d (as suggested), it listed the partition information correctly. I also decided to take a chance and have it install even though I was getting all the errors. When it lists the partitions, it doesn't list the DOS partition (but fdisk does). Well, it still gave me the /: write failed, file system is full, uid 0 on /: file system full errors, but it appeared to have done something. I rebooted the machine, copied the kernel, rebooted, rebooted, and it comes up. Of course, the DOS partition was blown away. It's still having problems. One was it was not seeing the original partition, but fdisk had. Second, there was a bad super block on the /usr file system that fsck couldn't correct. Finally when I reinstalled DOS, the DOS fdisk had shown that FreeBSD only installed itself in a 24 meg partition as opposed to the 535 I gave to it. Has anyone else seen this? Is it hardware, software, or user error? Help please. -- Eric V. Blood The Winky Wooster | 7311 Coal Cr Pkwy SE #E205 | "Kiss my ASCII" blood@halcyon.com | Renton, WA 98059-3172 | (206) 271-6772 Voice/Data