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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Minor installation help needed.
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Nate's a busy boy, I can't keep bugging him about this stuff...

I have a DEC 450 ST (486 DX (not DX2)), 64MB's ram, 2 Adaptec
1740 SCSI controllers running in enhanced mode, a Fuji 512 MB drive,
and a DEC RZ25 (425MB disk, configured via SETUP to receive a startup
command from the controller.) 

Both drives are on the same scsi controller, the second controller is
not configured.

I have a bootable floppy that has a kernel configured with Adaptec support,
thanks to Nate.

I boot this puppy, and I get to the '#' prompt just fine, no problems.  It
sees the drives, floppy, network card, etc.

The Fuji drive is partitioned thusly:  450MB's for DOS, 50 MB's for
386BSD, with the whole RZ25 set aside for 386bsd if I can get it running.
I was using booteasy on an IDE drive (120 MB) configured about the same
proportions, and it worked fine.  But now I've chucked the IDE drive.

If I fire off install, I get:

sd0: no disk label
Do you want to install 386BSD on the ENTIRE drive? (y/n) 

I hit 'n', because I only want to use the 50MB partition, and then it
just drops me back to the '#'.

Speculation is that I somehow maybe need to use disklabel to partition
the second partition into a usable drive?  Any ideas on what I need to 
do?  Whatever happens, I somehow need to avoid trashing my dos partition :)
(Although it will be backed up shortly.)

Any help appreciated.  Thanks.
However
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu