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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Endless boot cycle- suggestions? (SOLUTION)
References: <45240001@hpycla.kobe.hp.com> <Aug.18.17.41.42.1992.4915@action.rutgers.edu> <3l!nmtm.alm@netcom.com> <16tkqqINN3e6@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:13:37 GMT
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In <16tkqqINN3e6@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> dds@doc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis) writes:

>Many people have reported endless boot cycles after installing 386BSD
>on a hard disk.  I had the same problem, and solved it using the
>following procedure.  The problems seems to be wrong disklabels on
>the disk created by install.  This is can fixed, by doing it manualy.
>You milleage may vary.

[...]

>(4) Create a new disk entry.  The manual pages for disktab 5 should guide
>    you.  You need to know the characteristics of your hard disk.
>    Look at the disks in the file, and add one for your own disk.
>	cd /etc
>	vi disktab

You are aware that this is a catch-22, if you have no space to unpack the
bindist files on another UNIX system, aren't you? The man page is in bindist,
but you have only readable man pages when you succeeded in installing them
on the disk. Just to mention... 
There should be some "hacker's guide" at least on the fixit disk, 
for all those who haven't started with 386bsd-0.0. (or aren't real *NIX wizards,
but it is worth a discussion whether 386bsd is for the occasional computer
user at all for the moment).

[...]

>Good luck,

>Diomidis
>-- 
>Diomidis Spinellis    Internet: <dds@doc.ic.ac.uk>  UUCP: ...!uknet!icdoc!dds
>Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7     #include "/dev/tty"


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Holger
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