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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: HELP: Can't install 386bsd-0.1 into own partition! References: <ache.714840717@cpuv1> <ache.714917290@cpuv1> <2252@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <1992Aug31.062144.12176@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> Date: 31 Aug 92 11:14:57 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Keywords: 386BSD Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.715259697@du9ds3> Lines: 35 In <1992Aug31.062144.12176@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (B.Myers) writes: [..] >Install won't create it's own partition on my machine. Every time I try >to install it it tells me I already have it installed and it only >asks me if I want to overwrite it. I say yes. Then it says use the >whole disk, and I say no. Then it quits. >Before that it says 0 mb free on disk. >When I de-installed 386bsd, because I wanted to have a dos partition too.. >i used the "fdisk /mbr" command to remove it. >now I can't get it to say I don't have it on anymore. >I have a Segate 106 meg IDE drive. >please help me out, and all the other people who are having the same trouble. >any guesses? >>I have had the same and other problems and I'm ending with one big >>BSD partition without DOS. >> >you and me both. :) Regarding the 0 MB problem: it seems that install want to have contiguous free space at the end of the disk, lots of MBs in the middle or at the beginning is "not existing". Creating a partition with fdisk (as the second partition on the disk, after some DOS or OS/2 partition) and changing the ID bit to A5 should make a partition 386bsd is happy with (should ;-)) Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"