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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.bbn.com!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!oneill From: oneill@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) Subject: [both] Install problems Message-ID: <C97G5y.7qz@ulowell.ulowell.edu> Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell) Organization: UMass-Lowell Computer Science Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 01:29:57 GMT Lines: 37 Configuration is a 486/33 256kb cache, 20Mb memory, AHA-1542B controller with DEC RZ24 as drive 0 with 100Mb DOS partition (rest to go to BSD), and a HP 1Gb disk as drive 1. OK, a while back I was trying to install 386bsd with the 0.2.2 (I think) boot floppy (the 0.1 floppy didn't work right). The install procedure went fine, I installed the bin files, and when I rebooted, poof, the file system was corrupt. The disks supposedly synced, but things just were bogus. So, I put it away for a while. I thought it might be the fact that I have 20Mb of memory, and supposedly SCSI disks can only do DMA through 16Mb. Still wanting UNIX at home, I decided to give NetBSD a shot. Got it all set, booted the kc-aha floppy, inserted the install1 floppy, and answered the questions. In the process I discovered that the installation notes didn't make much sense with regard to using FDISK. It said to create at least a 30Mb partition with FDISK, and record the starting and ending sectors. Well, FDISK doesn't have that info. In fact, DOS seems to do its own thing and pretend that each cylinder is 1Mb is size, and adjusts the number of heads and sectors to compensate (probably due to the fact that DOS can't hack more than 1024 cylinders). So, calculating the offset was no easy task. Hacking around (and making sure I had a GOOD backup), I came up with the theoretically correct parameters. I entered those, and upon allocationg everything left over to /usr, the script broke after the (y/n) question on proceeding with the error 363 Syntax Error: Unterminated quoted string Inspection of the file didn't seem to turn up anything, but cat is not much of a file browser. Anybody got any ideas on this one? ======================================================================= Brian O'Neill - Systems Manager, Computer Science (508) 934-3645 University of Massachusetts at Lowell Internet: oneill@ulowell.edu Moderator, comp.binaries.ibm.pc