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From: peterson@notredame.ac.jp (Greg Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: RE: 386bsd - reinstall woes (solved)
Message-ID: <PETERSON.92Dec28015820@ndwc.notredame.ac.jp>
Date: 27 Dec 92 16:58:20 GMT
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Organization: Notre Dame Women's College, Kyoto, Japan.
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I wrote:
> 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.
Thanks to tjb@NeoSoft.com (Timothy J. Bogart), who replied:
> There is a reference to an additional switch needed to remove
> 386bsd from an entire-disk installation mentioned in the install
> notes. I don't remember the switch, but it explained that you
Yes, it is explained in INSTALL.NOTES. (When in doubt, read the
manual!) In order to set up the disk again, this time with both
PC-DOS and 386BSD partitions, I had to use both methods documented
in INTSTALL.NOTES:
Tiny 386BSD: # cat /386bsd > /dev/ras0d
PC-DOS: A:>fdisk /mbr
(then run fdisk to create primary DOS partition)
The order above is important. First I tried just fdisk /mbr, which
seemed to work okay for DOS, but then when I tried to reinstall
386BSD, install went into an endless loop. After following the steps
above, in that order, I was able to get both PC-DOS (IBM DOS J5.0/V -
Japanese DOS/V) and 386BSD set up.
--
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