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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!caen!nic.umass.edu!cis.umassd.edu!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!rboccuzz From: rboccuzz@cs.ulowell.edu (Rich Boccuzzi) Subject: 2 Problems: No disk Label, Tip doesn't Work Message-ID: <1992Jul28.122647.7234@ulowell.ulowell.edu> Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell) Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science References: <1992Jul27.152614.25898@psg.com> <1992Jul28.065521.3441@spcvxb.spc.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:26:47 GMT Lines: 36 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