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From: ricky@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr RS Mcconachy)
Subject: Install problem: "wdsetctlr: status 1 error 4 ..."
Message-ID: <ricky.712745678@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au>
Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1992 08:54:38 GMT
G'day O Wise UNIX users,
I am a complete beginner when it comes to setting up UNIX systems. I
can use 'em when they are set up, but I've never done set one up myself.
I am trying to bring 386BSD 0.1 up on a 486/33 PC at present and not
having much luck :-( Before I cover the problem here is a quick
description of the machine:
486/33DX
4M memory
Maxtor 760M ESDI HD
UltraStor 12f ESDI controller
1.44M (A:) and 1.2M (B:) floppies
Trident 8900 SVGA card
OK, when I boot the Tiny-BSD disk life is great. It sees the floppies
and HD (as an UltraStor :-) as I would (in my ignorance) expect. When
I type "install" the system asks me whether I want to install it on
the whole disk or not. If I say yes I get the warning messages about
wiping the drive and then:
wdsetctrl: status 1 error 4
High level formatting of 386BSD disk storage:
Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (142) >= data blocks (128) is last
cylinder group. This implies 2048 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
/dev/rwd0a: 1277952 sectors in 624 cylinders of 64 tracks, 32 sectors
654.3MB in 39 cyl groups (16c/g, 16.78MB/g, 3840i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 32832, 65632, 98432, .......
<more of the same pattern>
1180832, 1213632, 1246432
wdsetctrl: status 1 error 4
newfs: ioctl (WDINFO) No such process
newfs: /dev/rdw0a: can't rewrite disk label
Could not format filesystem. Installation failed.
#
A similar thing (the wdsetctrl stuff and newfs junk) occurs if I try to
install 386BSD onto a partition rather than the whole drive. Sooooooo,
can somebody/anybody/you PLEASE tell me what to do to install BSD?
Please do NOT assume that somebody else will help me, PLEASE drop me an
email note if you can offer a suggestion as to what I should do. Hey,
flame away if you like (I know I'm not good at this), just tell me how
to fix it please :-) Thanks HEAPS,
Richard McConachy.
(ricky@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au or ricky@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au)