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- From: rboccuzz@cs.ulowell.edu (Rich Boccuzzi)
- Subject: 2 Problems: No disk Label, Tip doesn't Work
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.122647.7234@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:26:47 GMT
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- Ok, I have asked one of these problems before, and have yet to
- see a satisfactory answer. Others have asked it on a post, as well as
- asking me to forward any solution to them. Therefore
- if anyone has a solution to either of these problems, please post,
- as there is interest.
-
- First problem: If I boot up Tiny, it boots fine. I can then
- install on the complete hard disk. I notice that the label: line
- on a disklabel -r wd0 will be empty, but the OS boots fine. If
- I install on a partition, and then boot, I get a (no label) error, and
- it goes into reboot cycle. Looking at the disk label, I notice
- all information is messed up: ie rpm is 0, interleave is 0, cylinder
- count is wrong (to large). If i edit the disklabel, and then do
- a disklabel -r, the information I edited into the label is there.
- Upon reboot, the same error comes up, and the label gets clobbered back
- to the incorrect setting. I have tried the new dist.fs in agate, and
- that did not help. Please post a solution, if one is known.
- My system is:
- 386SX laptop by Sega/Mider
- 124 Meg Hard disk
- 8 Meg RAM
- I attempted to give 24 meg to dos, and 100 to 386BSD.
-
- The second problem I had was getting tip to work, and I saw a
- couple of posts about this, but no solution. When tip is configured
- properly, we get the
- no file or no lock error. (sorry, I can't be more precise, but
- I can't get that far again without reinstalling 386BSD on my whole
- system, and then I can't get tip to work to read mail and news for the
- solution :-)
- Thank you for you help. And by the way, Bill and Lynne, you did
- a super job. When I had it up on the whole disk, I was very impressed.
- Kudos all around.
- --
- Richard Boccuzzi, 10 Youngs Road, Dedham, MA 02026
- rboccuzz@cs.ulowell.edu, harvard!ulowell!rboccuzz
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