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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5549 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:48:47 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!shawr From: shawr@netcom.com (rich shaw) Subject: 386BSD installation problem. (install said : could not format ..) Message-ID: <1992Dec25.200723.16444@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:07:23 GMT Lines: 27 Hello everyone. I have a problem on installation. My system is a 386 clone with conner 3204F IDE hard drive. I can boot from the dist.fs fine, however, when I tried to install 386bsd to the entire drive, the installation fail. The following is the message on the screen. High level formatting of 386BSD storage: /dev/rwd0a: 403712 sectors in 664 cylinders of 16 tracks, 38 sectors 206.7MB in 42 cyl groups (16 c/g, 4.98MB/g, 1152 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, 9808, 19584, ..... ...... (some number) .... ........................ 350432, 360208, 369984, 379760, 389536, 399312, cg 0: bad magic number write error: 0 wtfs: read-only file system Could not format filesystem. Instrallation failed. ######### end of the screen dump ######### So, what is this mean and how do I fix this? Thanks in advance. -- rich -- shawr@netcom.com