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From: pipes@knock1.mgh.harvard.edu (Robert A. Wheeler)
Subject: Re: More *BSD installation grief.
Message-ID: <YNMHBMIJ@math.fu-berlin.de>
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Summary: wd0 formatting problems (resolved)
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 01:45:17 GMT
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In article <CDx5xB.LMq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes:

>Note:  When I installed FreeBSD I ran into the following problem.  FreeBSD
>will not install itself over exsisting partitions by default.  When forced
>to do so, it started the FreeBSD partition at cluster 1.  The machine, once
>all was installed from the install floppies, would go into a cyclic reboot.
>The solution:  When FreeBSD install asks you for the number of clusters to
>use, give it ALL and it will start at 0 (this is what I did).  I do not know
>what to do if you want to keep DOS around ...
>

	I also gave up on NB 0.9, and installed FreeBSD. The portion of
"install" which organizes and formats the wd0 device (IDE) insisted on
coming up with parameters which caused numerous hard errors when the
superblocks were being written, and also later in the installation.

	I finally grafted the front end of NetBSD's install onto the
tail end of FreeBSD's install and got the damned thing to work properly.

	On the other hand, thinking in cylinders and megabytes is much
nicer than trying to figure the number of sectors per partition.

wheeler@pipedream.mgh.harvard.edu