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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!danr From: danr@netcom.com (Dan Ringdahl) Subject: Problems with disklabel, Adaptec 2322 ESDI, Maxtor 8380E 300MB Message-ID: <1993Mar20.045458.12132@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 04:54:58 GMT Lines: 18 I have tried 4 sets of dist.fs and fixit.fs to fix this problem. They include the original 0.1 set, the ones on agate in the unofficial dir that have the wd.c fix, the 0.2 set (which had the keyboard prob on my machine), and the most recent set announced (I can't remeber what they were exactly, but they came only in 1.44 format because of the size of the kernel). With the exception of the 0.2 set which had the keyboard problem causing a much shorter install process :), all of these would install successfully, ask you to remove the floppy, and then proceed to reboot repeatedly with the message 'no disk label'. With each of these I have booted the fixit floppy to try to create a label. They all failed to create a label. I am running a no-name i386DX-33 with a Adaptec 2322 ESDI/floppy controller running a Maxtor 8380E 300MB drive. This drive is a 15Mbps transfer rate drive. I have two DOS partitions preceeding my attempted installation partition (32MB DOS bootable and 100MB extended). If can help me or if you need more information, please email me. My address is danr@netcom.com. Thanks in advance. -Dan Ringdahl, Riverside, CA danr@netcom.com