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From: prkoch@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Peter Koch)
Subject: Installing 386bsd
Message-ID: <Bvn4H4.5Fz@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Summary: Problems to install and boot 386bsd from an AT-BUS partition
Sender: news@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:48:40 GMT
Keywords: install boot 386bsd
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Hi Folks,
i am very glad seeing that there are a lot of good guys working on
a non-commercial-pd UNIX and i want to send a lot of good wishes to
them !!!!!!!!!
but after downloading and installing i've got a problem and now i've
been run out of ideas.
what has happend
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i've ftp'd the system down, copied it to MS-DOS disks, rawrited the
dist.fs and fixit.fs - disks and booted 386bsd from the distributer-
disk and started 'install'.
'install' said "102 MB free", i said 'take 100MB for 386BSD'
'install' said "high - level format /dev/rwd0a ..."
'install' said "installing all the stuff"
'install' said "remove disk and press key to reboot"
i did it.
now my Problem:
===============
the system-kernel is found (Message: 386BSD ...) but then appears
the message
wd0: no disk label
can't mount wd0a as root
and then the system reboots.
then i've booted from the fixit.fs and tried to "mount /dev/wd0a /mnt"
but the 'no disk-label' message has also been shown.
When running 'install' again and break (CNTRL-C) at the reboot-message,
the "mount /dev/wd0a /mnt" works and i can see, that the system is
installed in the partition.
my questions
============
- how to bring up 386BSD in my partition (technical data below)
- is any documentation for 'disklabel, diskpart, newfs, etc.'
out there
- by the way: how to place a filesystem on a floppy (1.2/1.44)
my technical datas
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386 25MHz
AMI-BIOS
8 MB RAM
1.2 MB and 1.44 MB floppys
205 MB Seagate AT-Bus disk
- 33MB DOS 3.3 - System Partition
- 70MB DOS 3.3 - Extended Partition
THANX
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sorry for my bad english, if you understand what i mean, please
answer.
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