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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!max.u.washington.edu!anything From: anything@max.u.washington.edu Subject: Cannot install bootable 386bsd on ESDI HD Message-ID: <1992Sep17.163352.1@max.u.washington.edu> Lines: 25 Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: ÿÿÿÿ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 23:33:52 GMT When I try to install 386BSD on my 105 megabyte ESDI drive (connected to an Ultrastor u12f controller) the install goes okay only if I use a partition instead of a whole drive. however when I reboot off the hard drive I get : File not found - didn't find 386bsd, will try 386bsd.alt File not found - didn't find 386bsd.alt, will try 386bsd.old File not found - didn't find 386bsd.old, will try boot and then it stops with the A: drive spinning too. I reboot from the floppy and mount my hard drive partition for a look and everything looks fine. so i copy 386bsd off the floppy to 386bsd.old and boot on the hard drive and reboot. same result! when I try to install to the whole hard drive it seems incapable of making subdirectories, whenever called upon to make a subdirectory by the install script it returns an (input/output error) however the files in the root directory are there and it will partially boot until it can't find init. any ideas? please? Don Levinson anything@max.u.washington.edu p.s. my pc: Gateway 2000 486/33 DX 64k ext cache. et3000 vga DEC etherworks lc/tp 1.2M floppy