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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA280 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:01:01 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de!kehr From: kehr@rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Roger Kehr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386BSD] How to disklabel the BSD-partitions ? Date: 29 Jan 1993 13:51:05 GMT Organization: TU Darmstadt Lines: 70 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kbco9INNm5m@rs2.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de Keywords: 386BSD,disklabel,partition Hi folks, I've got a Conner-3540 with an Adaptec-1542B as HD-System. I want to install a MS-DOS-partition about 160MB (I really need it !) and want to spend the rest for 386BSD. I made two partitions with MS-DOS' fdisk, changed BSD-Id to 0xA5 and installed DOS and later the BSD-Partition with the Tiny-Bootdisk. Everything works fine for me. Now I want to divide my BSD-partition into a: /root 40MB b: swap 32MB (does it have to be b: ?) g: /usr 60MB h: /home 160MB something like that... My Questions are : 1) how to disklabel my partitions ? I think it should work with the disklabel-command e.g. disklabel -e -r as0 and enter the new values. 2) What should I enter in the row cpg and what means cpg ? For the swap b: and c: i don't need to put in anything ? In a: I found the value 16 for cpg. What does that mean ? 3) If I put BSD as the first DOS-fdisk-partition I find an offset of 32 sectors after installation of BSD. Is this the offset for the bootsectors ? If I install BSD on the whole drive there is no offset of 32 sectors. 4) Install with the Tiny-Bootdisk gives me 10000 sectors of swap-space but the beginning of the swap-space (offset) isn't directly behind the partition a:. Why is there something left out ? 5) What to enter fsize and bsize (512,2048) 386BSD did set on Quantum-ProDrive105-SCSI and on my Connor it was set to (1024,8192). Which one to take ? 6) After Tiny-Installation my Interleave was set to 0, but when I tried to change the label it said Interleave 0 is wrong ! Shall I set it to 1 as on the ProDrive105 ? 7) Is there a difference if I put the MS-DOS partition before the BSD-partition ??? I looked up the FAQ but found only something about the installation on the new partitions, but not how to label them. I haven't found answers th these questions by now, cause I'm new to 386BSD. If anyone of the wizards could help me (and some of my friends too) would be great. - /======================================================================/ / Roger Kehr phone: (06151) 16-3250 / / kehr@hrz.th-darmstadt.de Technical University Darmstadt - Germany / /======================================================================/