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- From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
- Subject: Re: HELP: Can't install 386bsd-0.1 into own partition!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.141335.28601@autelca.ascom.ch>
- Keywords: 386BSD
- Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
- References: <ache.714840717@cpuv1> <ache.714917290@cpuv1> <2252@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <1992Aug31.062144.12176@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> <veit.715259697@du9ds3>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:13:35 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes:
-
- >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.
- [ text about installing and de-installing 386bsd deleted - NB.]
-
- >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 ;-))
- I did the following (without fiddling with the partition table entries):
-
- Create a DOS primary partition (with DOS fdisk).
- Create a DOS secondary partition and delete it, again.
- Boot with the dist.fs floppy disk.
- After succesful booting, install.
- 386BSD will happily use the secondary (now deleted) partition on
- the disk for installation if you tell it to.
-
- This happened on a no-name 486/25 with 16 MB RAM and Adaptec 1542B SCSI
- controller (plus a CP-3100 100 MB Conner Harddisk).
-
- I don't know whether this just works for SCSI systems, but I doubt it.
- The reason why I did it this way was, that I tried to change the
- partition ID to A5 but the offsets which were given (about 460 ff.)
- must be wrong. I looked at sector 0 on the harddisk (with PC-Tools
- edit disk feature) but found the following text in this section of
- the bootblock: "No system disk ..."
- I didn't want to overwrite this text, although nothing would happen,
- it wouldn't have helped, anyway.
-
- Norbert.
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