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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5557 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:48:58 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!wnoc-kyo!kuis!notredame.ac.jp!ndwc!peterson From: peterson@notredame.ac.jp (Greg Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386bsd - reinstall woes Message-ID: <PETERSON.92Dec27004502@ndwc.notredame.ac.jp> Date: 26 Dec 92 15:45:02 GMT Sender: news@ndwc.notredame.ac.jp Organization: Notre Dame Women's College, Kyoto, Japan. Lines: 32 I have 386bsd-0.1 running on one SCSI hard disk, and I want to transfer it to a larger one (Maxtor XT-8760S). I began to install the system on the new disk (the whole disk), but the install program was interrupted. When I restarted "Tiny 386bsd" and ran install again, it reported that it was installed, then asked if I wanted to reinstall the system. When I answered 'y', it went into a loop, repeating the same message. I have tried several ways of getting out of this loop: - FDISK and FORMAT in MS-DOS (FAT is messed up) - Boot from the old hard disk, mount the new one (kmem error) - cp the necessary files to the hard disk (file permissions became 644) None of these worked. When I try to boot from the hard disk, 386bsd starts up, looking for a kernel. That's as far as it gets. Does anyone have a suggestion? Ideally, I would like to put a small MS-DOS partition on the disk (in hindsight), but I would be happy with 386bsd-only as well. Is there a version of the install program that doesn't go into an endless loop when you try to reinstall? Or, lacking that, is there a way to get the original install program to reinstall the system? Thanks, and Merry Christmas from Japan. -- Greg Peterson - peterson@notredame.ac.jp Notre Dame Women's College, Kyoto, JAPAN (Phone: +81 75 781-1173) Home: Phone: +81 775 53-8614 Fax: +81 775 52-7768