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From: titus@cairo.anu.edu.au (titus chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: problems with netbsd
Date: 16 Aug 1993 12:07:37 GMT
Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
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hi there,
I have a machine running netbsd 0.8. We have had some problems with
it that it keeps dying after some use. The machine config is:
486 DX/50
8 megs of ram
24megs of swap
170meg conner ide drive
Now we had 12 megs of swap before and we thought that was the problem
but it seems it is another thing. When the machine dies, it still responds to
ping but it seems to refuse to run new processes. (Processes that were running
on the machine seems to keep going for a while until they die as well). Is
this a known problem? We have had this repeated problem on the machine for
at least half a dozen times already.
The second problem i have is setting up a 2nd HD on 386bsd/netbsd.
There doesnt seem to be any docs on disklabelling etc. I particularly is
having the problem that disklabel is refusing to write an initial label
onto the disk as documented in the man page using
disklabel -r /dev/rwd1d (that being the whole drive)
it returns "magic number bad. (label is damaged or pack is unlabelled) or
some similar errors. If i simply disklabel the device withOUT the -r
option, it does the kernel copy just fine, and i can newfs the partition
and mount the drive and use it! But it will NOT write the label onto
the disk seemingly. help please.
regards
titus chiu
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