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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Upgrading 0.0 to 0.1 Message-ID: <1992Aug8.020037.14791@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1992 02:00:37 GMT Lines: 31 After spending the whole night trying to upgrade my 386BSD 0.0 to 0.1, I'll try to summarize my observations. programs compiled using 0.0 works in 0.1, e.g. bash gcc2.2.2 disklabel using 0.1 works on 0.0 and acceptable by 0.0(you can reboot 0.0, using 0.1 wdboot and bootwd) once you use disklabel-0.1 you can mount the 0.0 hard-disk using 0.1 However you cannot reboot using 0.1 after I copied using cp the 0.1 386bsd I should use cpio, I'll try that tonight. Once you attempt to reboot, you cannot mount the hard-disk anymore, you must run disklabel from the fixit.fs 0.1 disk. I do not understand why the disklabel on the hard-disk can be changed on reboot. I'll try to run MSDOS fdisk on the 0.0 hard-disk. Maybe the boot sector which was put by 0.0 cannot work with the disklabelling of 0.1. The symtom is an attempt to reboot all the time. I had this problem when I had an invalid boot sector which was put there by the 0.1 install for standalone 386BSD system, which does not coexist with DOS. Any information would be most appreciated. Thanks. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet