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From: maswenso@indiana.edu (Mark Swenson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: MacBSD2.1 on Zip drive???
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:47:29 -0500
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Recently I got an Iomega Zip drive and am trying to put MacBSD on it with
little luck and I would like to know if anyone else has done this or if
anyone might know what the problem I'm having means.
I have partitioned the disk with the root partition taking up 113966
sectors. When I run MKFS most of the information in the window is blank
and doensn't make much sense. I have both left it alone and changed it on
different attempts and have gotten the same results. What normally comes
up is the following:
Sector Size: 0
Block Size:
Bytes/Sector:
Sectors/Track: 40
Tracks/Cylinder: 0
Num Cylinders: 0
Bytes/Inode:
Cylinders/Group:
Spare Sectors/Track:
File System Size: 113966
Optimize Space/Time: Space
I have changed the Sector Size and Block Sizes to 512 and the Bytes/Sector
to 256 on guesses, but have no clue what the others might be changed to.
The reason I feel this might be important is that when I run the install
program I get multiple serious errors. In the install window the following
errors come up:
failed mountfs(), error 22.
Error mounting root
mount root. : Unidentifiable error: 0
My Mac itself (a docked Powerbook 230 w/FPU and 24 meg of RAM) at this
point puts up its own error message, a bus error, and forces a restart of
the machine.
If anyone knows the cause of this problem, and how/if it can be fixed, I
would really appreciate it. Thank you.
Mark Swenson.
--
Mark Swenson | "Play for more than you
maswenso@indiana.edu | can afford to lose and
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