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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Endless boot cycle- suggestions? (SOLUTION) Message-ID: <1992Aug20.170052.12243@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: 20 Aug 92 17:00:52 GMT References: <veit.714237217@du9ds3> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore Lines: 36 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes: : 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. I had solved it in the same way. The reasons are due to the problems with the swap device which should be at b partition. : > 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, Installing hard-disks will always be difficult, at least I always have this problem even when using MSDOS. You just cannot install hard-disks if you do not have any idea of the harddisk organization. This information should be supplied with the hard-disk. : but it is worth a discussion whether 386bsd is for the occasional computer : user at all for the moment). The install program is brilliant and is good for the novice but any computer user must learn how to write programs. The exeception may be Macs but Mac is only one type of computer so hardware inconsistencies does not exist. If they do not want to learn then go for Mac and pay for the price and performance drop, doing trivial things like writing letters. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet