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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: HELP: Can't install 386bsd-0.1 into own partition!
- References: <ache.714840717@cpuv1> <ache.714917290@cpuv1> <2252@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <1992Aug31.062144.12176@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 11:14:57 GMT
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Keywords: 386BSD
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- In <1992Aug31.062144.12176@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (B.Myers) writes:
-
- [..]
- >Install won't create it's own partition on my machine. Every time I try
- >to install it it tells me I already have it installed and it only
- >asks me if I want to overwrite it. I say yes. Then it says use the
- >whole disk, and I say no. Then it quits.
- >Before that it says 0 mb free on disk.
- >When I de-installed 386bsd, because I wanted to have a dos partition too..
- >i used the "fdisk /mbr" command to remove it.
- >now I can't get it to say I don't have it on anymore.
- >I have a Segate 106 meg IDE drive.
- >please help me out, and all the other people who are having the same trouble.
- >any guesses?
-
- >>I have had the same and other problems and I'm ending with one big
- >>BSD partition without DOS.
- >>
-
- >you and me both. :)
-
- Regarding the 0 MB problem: it seems that install want to have contiguous
- free space at the end of the disk, lots of MBs in the middle or at the beginning
- is "not existing".
- Creating a partition with fdisk (as the second partition on the disk, after some
- DOS or OS/2 partition) and changing the ID bit to A5 should make a partition
- 386bsd is happy with (should ;-))
-
- Holger
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