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From: bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (B.Myers)
Subject: Re: HELP: Can't install 386bsd-0.1 into own partition!
Message-ID: <1992Aug31.062144.12176@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu>
Keywords: 386BSD
Organization: Radford University
References: <ache.714840717@cpuv1> <ache.714917290@cpuv1> <2252@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 06:21:44 GMT
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In article <2252@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> gt@prosun.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski) writes:
>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.

[stuff deleted]

>|> 'install' can't work only when BSD partition already exist, but can
>|> create it himself!

Install won't create it's own partition on my machine. Every time I try
to install it it tells me I already have it installed and it only
asks me if I want to overwrite it. I say yes. Then it says use the 
whole disk, and I say no. Then it quits. 
Before that it says 0 mb free on disk.
When I de-installed 386bsd, because I wanted to have a dos partition too..
i used the "fdisk /mbr" command to remove it.
now I can't get it to say I don't have it on anymore.
I have a Segate 106 meg IDE drive.
please help me out, and all the other people who are having the same trouble.
any guesses?

>I have had the same and other problems and I'm ending with one big 
>BSD partition without DOS.
>

you and me both. :)