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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless...
- Message-ID: <veit.711621056@du9ds3>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 08:30:56 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.160256.4518@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul17.180345.1296@nrao.edu> <1992Jul18.044401.2343@uvm.edu> <14c75pINNh59@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In <14c75pINNh59@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
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-
- >With regards to the 0.1 install program, yes, it only creates one big
- >partition for the whole set of files, with a 5MB "b" partition and a "c"
- >partition that spans the entire FDISK partition. Sorry no options yet.
-
- >As the INSTALL.NOTE's mention, to install it the prior, manual way by
- >writing a disktab entry is *not documented*, although possible with the
- >new FIXIT floppy. Crossing between the two mechanisms is also possible
- >but not reccomended unless you really know what you are doing (also, since
- >totally untested by us, may provoke bugs we are totally unaware of).
-
- >The install program is still under development (this is a surprise?), being
- >a recent addition, and one on which we'd like to hear some well considered
- >discussion, because of the choices possible. It's hard for a system this
- >complex to be installed by a naive user (we have approx 80,000 of these),
- >yet it should not be too much of a straight jacket for experienced ones.
- >Lynne chose MSDOS's model to begin with, but it's just a start. You'd be
- >surprised just how hard she worked just to get that straight.
-
- >Bill.
-
- One notice for all installers:
-
- There is a catch with install. You may run into problems
- with NEWFS (called from INSTALL) when the free space on your partition
- is at the beginning of the disk.
- newfs reports
- (WDINFO: no such process)
- and fails install.
-
-
- INSTALL may complain about 0 MB free, but this is not true. In this case
- you have to set up a partition with id 165 (0A5h) by yourself. This is
- accomplished by making an appropriate DOS-Partition with FDISK and then
- patching the DOS partition sector (with norton utilities or debug, BE VERY VERY
- CAREFUL!!!!!) to contain the proper ID). THIS PARTITION MUSTN'T START AT
- CYLINDER 0. The first useful location is cylinder 1, because all FDISKs have
- the feature to start the partition at cylinder 0 track 1, not track 0. This
- is reasonable, because track 0 starts with the DOS partition sector. But
- newfs wants to write its disklabel and does not like starting a partition
- at a non-cylinder boundary.
-
- Hope this information is useful.
-
- Holger
-
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