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- From: shawr@netcom.com (rich shaw)
- Subject: 386BSD installation problem. (install said : could not format ..)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.200723.16444@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:07:23 GMT
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- Hello everyone.
-
- I have a problem on installation. My system is a 386 clone with
- conner 3204F IDE hard drive. I can boot from the dist.fs fine, however,
- when I tried to install 386bsd to the entire drive, the installation
- fail. The following is the message on the screen.
-
- High level formatting of 386BSD storage:
- /dev/rwd0a: 403712 sectors in 664 cylinders of 16 tracks, 38 sectors
- 206.7MB in 42 cyl groups (16 c/g, 4.98MB/g, 1152 i/g)
- super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
- 32, 9808, 19584, .....
- ..... (some number) ....
- .......................
- 350432, 360208, 369984, 379760, 389536, 399312,
- cg 0: bad magic number
- write error: 0
- wtfs: read-only file system
-
- Could not format filesystem. Instrallation failed.
- ######### end of the screen dump #########
-
- So, what is this mean and how do I fix this?
- Thanks in advance.
-
- -- rich
- -- shawr@netcom.com
-