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From: rboccuzz@cs.ulowell.edu (Rich Boccuzzi)
Subject: 2 Problems: No disk Label, Tip doesn't Work
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Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:26:47 GMT
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	Ok, I have asked one of these problems before, and have yet to
see a satisfactory answer.  Others have asked it on a post, as well as
asking me to forward any solution to them.  Therefore
if anyone has a solution to either of these problems, please post,
as there is interest.
	
	First problem:  If I boot up Tiny, it boots fine.  I can then
install on the complete hard disk.  I notice that the label: line
on a disklabel -r wd0 will be empty, but the OS boots fine.  If
I install on a partition, and then boot, I get a (no label) error, and
it goes into reboot cycle.  Looking at the disk label, I notice 
all information is messed up: ie rpm is 0, interleave is 0, cylinder
count is wrong (to large).  If i edit the disklabel, and then do
a disklabel -r, the information I edited into the label is there.
Upon reboot, the same error comes up, and the label gets clobbered back
to the incorrect setting.  I have tried the new dist.fs in agate, and
that did not help.  Please post a solution, if one is known.
	My system is:
		386SX laptop by Sega/Mider
		124 Meg Hard disk
		8 Meg RAM
	I attempted to give 24 meg to dos, and 100 to 386BSD.

	The second problem I had was getting tip to work, and I saw a
couple of posts about this, but no solution.  When tip is configured
properly, we get the
	no file or no lock error.  (sorry, I can't be more precise, but
I can't get that far again without reinstalling 386BSD on my whole
system, and then I can't get tip to work to read mail and news for the
solution :-)
	Thank you for you help. And by the way, Bill and Lynne, you did
a super job.  When I had it up on the whole disk, I was very impressed.
Kudos all around.
-- 
Richard Boccuzzi, 10 Youngs Road, Dedham, MA 02026
rboccuzz@cs.ulowell.edu, harvard!ulowell!rboccuzz