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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!gmdtub!prosun!gt From: gt@prosun.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: HELP: Can't install 386bsd-0.1 into own partition! Keywords: 386BSD Message-ID: <2252@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: 27 Aug 92 20:19:50 GMT References: <ache.714840717@cpuv1> <ache.714917290@cpuv1> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Organization: GMD Berlin (FIRST) Lines: 39 In article <ache.714917290@cpuv1>, ache@astral.msk.su (Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage) writes: |> 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! Hey, are there anywhere the sources of 'install', did I miss an artikel?:-) I have had the same and other problems and I'm ending with one big BSD partition without DOS. |> |> Very strange... |> Thats what I'm saying, but thank you for system as it is working now. |> -- |> 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) /gT/