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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!watt.cae.uwm.edu!murthy From: murthy@cae.uwm.edu () Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI (re)installation question Date: 2 Apr 1997 14:57:05 GMT Organization: College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hts41$pc8@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.52.2 Originator: murthy@watt.cae.uwm.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6568 Hi! For a client of mine, I have to reinstall BSDI 1.1 (yes, 1.1 - for some technical reasons) on a "bigger" and better box. It's not a fancy machine, Intel 120MHz, Award BIOS, 1.6GB Western Digital Hard-drive with a QIC-wide internal SCSI tape drive (don't know if that works yet :-)). When I boot it with the boot floppy, everything seems fine - then with the installation diskette goes fine until I try to do something with the hard drive. First, after I ran "setup" and "disksetup -i wd0" and then proceeded to do newfs, the computer hung (blinking cursor at the bottom left on the monitor). Upon couple of reboots and retries, it now hangs the moment I try to run "disksetup -i wd0" - what I deduce is that it somehow doesn't like the hard drive or its parameters. I checked the CMOS - it was in LBA mode, I changed it to Normal, but no success ... BTW, I can load DOS on the same hard drive without any problem (in LBA mode it sees all the 1.6GB, and in Normal mode 503MB). Does anyone have a clue what's going on (I have none :-))? Please, help me if you can. If you have any questions, or need clarifications, please feel free to email me. Thanks, Murthy Nyayapati murthy@cae.uwm.edu