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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: IDE drive problems - is it a bug?
Date: 9 Dec 1993 01:15:50 +1030
Organization: APANIX Public Access Unix, Australia, +61-8-373-5485 (3 lines)
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simon@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk writes:
>Hi there,
> I am having a spot of bother. I decided that 200M wasn't enough,
>and finally treated myself to another 250M of harddisc. But after a chunk
>of struggling I can't make it happen...
>
>[repeat bug description > /dev/null]
>
> So what? Am I being like badly dumb? Or is it really a bug?
No, you'r not being even remotely dumb, yes it really is a bug.
The patchkits do a wonderful job of fixing the bugs, and then go on
to introduce the disklabel bug :) Simple solution: book off your
original install bootup disk, and disklabel it from there. Or since
you have booted it up already with the single drive, you should be
able to use it now.
FreeBSD fixes this and a few other bugs, I just upgraded myself from
386bsd to FreeBSD - I think it's definately worth the effort. Even
with having to reconfigure/compile sendmail again *scream* *smirk*
Cheers
Leigh
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