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From: alschnei@starlink.com (Alan Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: HELP - Installing Seagate 9GB Drive
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 05:58:20 GMT
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John Verreault <verreaul@aei.ca> wrote:

>I have a P90 w/32MB RAM, 3COM Ethernet IIITP, Buslogic 946C revE.
>I am trying to install the 9GB Drive as follows:
>/      100MB
>swap   160MB
>/usr   8300MB
>/tmp   109MB

>(This is a new system)
>As soon as it mounts the filesystem and before I get to the point 
>where it asks what software you want to load I get the following error:

>(something like...)

>/a/usr: bad dir ino 2 at offset: 0
>mangled entry
>panic bad dir
>syncing disks   22 21  ...and a whole bunch of numbers

>If I reinstall the disk as follows:

>/	16MB
>swap	48MB
>/tmp	mfs
>/usr	1000MB

>This works...

>Do you need more than 32MB to mount an 8GB volume???

>Any assistance greatly appreciated

Do you have version 1.X?  One of the problems with 1.x was its
inability to recognize a filesystem > 4GB.  I have a Seagate 8GB on my
system and with 2.0.1, it installed fine (although I get quite a bit
of errors in news).  My server has 128MB of ram, but I don'y think it
matters?!?  Do you have a slice set aside for swap on another drive?

alschnei@starlink.com

>Thanks
>John
>verreaul@aei.ca