Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.starlink.com!usenet 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 Organization: StarLink Internet Services Lines: 48 Message-ID: <45e4kj$1ee@pegasus.starlink.com> References: <45bauo$kp4@news.worldlinx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: alschnei.starlink.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 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