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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!fuug!kiae!relcom!cpuv1!ache From: "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> Subject: Re: HELP: Can't install 386bsd-0.1 into own partition! Message-ID: <ache.714917290@cpuv1> Keywords: 386BSD Sender: ache@relcom.kiae.su (Andrew A. Chernov) Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow X-Natal-Chart: Sun/Virgo, Moon/Capricorn, Asc/Saggitarius References: <ache.714840717@cpuv1> X-Tarot-Aim: Curriculum Hermetis Date: 27 Aug 92 12:08:10 GMT Lines: 28 In <ache.714840717@cpuv1> I writes: >Problem description: >Can't install 386BSD into 0xa5 partition, but installation on whole >disk is sucessfull. >This bug is independent of partition size and order. >'install' diagnostics: >"High level... disk storage:" >Disk parameters and partition size are correct. >After "super-block backups ..." and its numbers 'install' says: >newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): No such process >newfs: /dev/rwd0a: can't rewrite disk label I found some solution of this problem, but not a _real_ solution: You must allow 'install' to _create_ BSD partition, don't create this partion by hand or by "diskmanager" or by something else. 'install' can't work only when BSD partition already exist, but can create it himself! Very strange... -- In-This-Life: Andrew A. Chernov | "Hay mas dicha, mas contento Internet: ache@astral.msk.su | "Que adorar una hermosura Organization: The RELCOM Corp., | "Brujuleada entre los lejos Moscow, Russia | "De lo imposible?!" (Calderon)