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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!wupost!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!cv3.cv.nrao.edu!laphroaig!cflatter From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) Subject: Re: install 0.1 problems Message-ID: <1992Jul21.224908.5459@nrao.edu> Sender: news@nrao.edu Reply-To: cflatter@nrao.edu Organization: NRAO References: <1992Jul21.211019.6250@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:49:08 GMT Lines: 36 In article 6250@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov, kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes: >1. I attempted to reinstall OS/2. 386BSD seems to have usurped the boot > sector on the disk. It appears that I'm going to have low level format > my disk :-( I didn't anticipate this from the install notes. Even > agreeing to let the 386BSD take the whole disk shouldn't be this unkind > to my disk. Talk about hunting gnats with a shotgun! You don't need to do a low level format to get rid of the BSD disk label: just write some garbage over it (this is in the release notes). > >2. How do I get 386BSD to recognize that I really do have 260 megabytes > of free space? I'm going to get my hands on a copy of Disk Manager, > but there ought to be an 'fdisk' utility in 386BSD. I found 'partition' > on the fixit.fs disk, but the command line arguments displayed when > run with no arguments weren't intuitive. And it wasn't mentioned > anywhere in the installation notes. BSD disk partitioning is done through the disklabel and is incompatible with Microsoft's partitioning scheme. disklabel(8) partitions a disk; partition(8) recommends partition sizes. > >3. Would anyone "in the know" care to suggest when a fix for the bus > mouse problem might be available. It's going to be a real drag > to pull the card every time I want to switch. :-) I'm even offering > to help to solve it, if I can surmount the above obstacles. Funny... I have a Logitech bus mouse installed and it didn't faze BSD at all. You might check the jumpers on the mouse card --- you might be able to find a configuration that works both with OS/2 and 386BSD. Chris Flatters cflatter@nrao.edu