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- From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: install 0.1 problems
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.224908.5459@nrao.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 22:49:08 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.211019.6250@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article 6250@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov, kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
- >1. I attempted to reinstall OS/2. 386BSD seems to have usurped the boot
- > sector on the disk. It appears that I'm going to have low level format
- > my disk :-( I didn't anticipate this from the install notes. Even
- > agreeing to let the 386BSD take the whole disk shouldn't be this unkind
- > to my disk.
-
- Talk about hunting gnats with a shotgun! You don't need to do a low level
- format to get rid of the BSD disk label: just write some garbage over it
- (this is in the release notes).
-
- >
- >2. How do I get 386BSD to recognize that I really do have 260 megabytes
- > of free space? I'm going to get my hands on a copy of Disk Manager,
- > but there ought to be an 'fdisk' utility in 386BSD. I found 'partition'
- > on the fixit.fs disk, but the command line arguments displayed when
- > run with no arguments weren't intuitive. And it wasn't mentioned
- > anywhere in the installation notes.
-
- BSD disk partitioning is done through the disklabel and is incompatible
- with Microsoft's partitioning scheme. disklabel(8) partitions a disk;
- partition(8) recommends partition sizes.
-
- >
- >3. Would anyone "in the know" care to suggest when a fix for the bus
- > mouse problem might be available. It's going to be a real drag
- > to pull the card every time I want to switch. :-) I'm even offering
- > to help to solve it, if I can surmount the above obstacles.
-
- Funny... I have a Logitech bus mouse installed and it didn't faze BSD at all.
- You might check the jumpers on the mouse card --- you might be able to find
- a configuration that works both with OS/2 and 386BSD.
-
- Chris Flatters
- cflatter@nrao.edu
-