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- From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
- Subject: 386BSD 0.1 dist.fs doesn't like 12 meg in my machine
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.153214.22664@mks.com>
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:32:14 GMT
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- I could not get 386BSD 0.1 to install with 12 meg in my machine.
- Booting off of the boot floppy I made from 'dist.fs' and typing install
- resulted in : nothing happening.
-
- Once I told my machine it only had 8 meg (via cmos settings; I didn't feel like
- physically removing the memory) the install worked.
-
- *but* it disklabeled/partitioned my drive incorrectly, putting a far-too-big
- wd0b at the start of wd0a. I used disklabel -r -e to fix the size and
- position of wd0b - I put it after wd0a (assuming that the sector postions
- start at 0 and not at 1). Now, how do I tell my machine that this is supposed
- to be swap space ? What do I need to do to prepare it ? (Where can I ftp or
- otherwise get documentation ?)
-
- BTW, thanx for second.drive.randy.
-
- One nit - in trying to setup the swap space I managed to get a panic, and it
- then dumped all over my hard disk, trashing the file system. What do I change
- so that it won't trash my filesystem like that ? I'd prefer to be able to boot
- from floppy and fix what caused the panic...
-
- Thanx,
- fred
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- Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
- or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
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