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From: damon@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Damon Antos)
Subject: 386BSD--3.5 floppy format, define swap space
Message-ID: <1992Oct23.142800.24124@research.nj.nec.com>
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Reply-To: damon@syl.nj.nec.com
Organization: NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 14:28:00 GMT
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By some miracle, I got the 386BSD binaries (bin01) loaded, expanded and
running without too much problem. However, etc01 was not as easy.
"extract etc01" resulted in: (etc01 stuff was placed in /tmp at that time)
Final installation:
/tmp/install.etc01: Can't open /tmp/install.etc01
extract: Cannot executre installation script of distribution, failed
The manifest for etc01 makes no mention of install.etc01! (bin01
manifest lists install.bin01 however)
So instead I used: "cd /; cat /usr/tmp/etc01.* | zcat | cpio -iadmlu"
which worked like a champ.
Now, on to my problems. I've looked for FAQs, bug reports, etc; but no
solutions...heck, I've even read the installation notes several times.
(What? You read the directions?)
1) man newfs says I need to do a disklabel on a new floppy before running.
OK fine, but disklabel wants a _formatted_ floppy? So I formatted via
MSDOS, then "disklabel -w -r fd0a floppy" gives me:
disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Device not configured
ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Device not configured
C'mon, formatting, labeling, and creating the filesystem shouldn't be this
difficult to figure out, could it? (HELP!...)
2) How do I define swap space? Did I miss something in the installation
process? I did set aside 20MB or so on the hard disk (i.e. unpartitioned)
for such a purpose. How do I set it up and tell the kernel to use it?
3) I there anything else I should know? I'm no system administrator. I've
only been a user/programmer for 10 years. Any pointers to docs?
Thanks for the help!!
....damon (Damon Antos)
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