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- From: eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Installation adventures and other magic, (a cry for help!!!)
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 16:08:56 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Hello everyone,
-
- I was successfull installing 386bsd on my home PC a:
-
- 386/20, Pheonix bios
- 4 MG RAM
- AST EGA adapter w/mono monitor 8-/ (it's all i got)
- seagate 4096 (80MG mfm)
-
- i just did the standard install, i even got sys.386bsd out of
- the source distributaion at work so i could recompile the kernel
- and i was a happy lad :-).
-
- Well i decided to take the plunge, i forked out $400 for
- Conner 3204 (200MG IDE), having been successful with the
- 3104 at work, way back in the 0.0 days... i thought this would
- be a safe choice.
-
- after getting the controller replaced (rusty's law: if i buy hardware
- something *will* fail, i don't even get frustrated anymore,
- i expect it to happen). I decided i needed to do the *real*
- installation, multiple partitions and swap space. (If anyone
- is interested i'll be glad to post my disktab entry).
-
- i booted off the fixit floppy, created the appropriate desktab entry
- (i'm pretty sure), including the "d" partition, as pointed out
- by cgd, the entire disk is dedicated to bsd - btw. ran disklabel,
- after running disklabel i did the paranoid "disklabel -r wd0"
- everything seemed to be ok, with one curious exception, the
- flags entry had: bad sectors, or something like that i can't
- remember, i was tempted to run bad144, but after reading the
- installation doc almost throughly (amazing, i know), i resisted
- the evil.
-
- i then ran newfs on my / and /usr partitions, then painstakingly
- cpio'd the fixit disk directory tree onto the hard disk. Copied
- the mount and umount's too / (make sure the execute permissions are set
- if you do this, i didn't :^\.
-
- Then i rebooted, just to go into an endless reboot cycle... so
- i rebooted the fixit floppy, ran disklabel -e and removed the
- bad sector flag entry.
-
- *I think this may have been a mistake*????
-
- rebooted and IT WORKED!!! gee what clever guy, i thought i was.
-
-
- So now i set out to extract bin01, had to use /usr/tmp because
- tmp was not big enough, extract sent me into OS panics. so
- i just extracted by hand. zcat | unompress | cpio -pdalmu.
-
- it completed with no complaints, however when i rebooted, i
- found out that some of the files in /etc where garbled, also
- only the fixit device drivers were in /dev. i know the bin01
- dist were ok, they were the ones i installed on my st4096.
- i then became worried as to what other files might be wrecked,
- especially executables, oh well.
-
- i then reinstalled my st4096 and cpio'd the /dev and etc directories,
- (with the exception of the wd?? and rwd?? device drivers) on to
- a floppy. then reinstalled my cp3204 and cpio'd the /dev and /etc
- directories, then rebooted, played a couple games of rogue and
- figured everything must be OK.
-
- i extracted the src01 stuff and attempted to build the GENERICISA
- kernel, i did the config, and make depend and then i typed make,
- by this time it's about 12:30 in the mourning and i start nodding off,
- after waking up a couple hours latter, i wipe the dribble off my desk
- and look at the screen... it was the remains of a reboot screen
- with some not too friendly error type messages, hmm.... oh well,
- i logged back in and found core.rm and core.cp in the root
- directory, hmmm.
-
- i go back into the .../compile/GENERICISA directory to complete the
- make and went to bed. the next mourning (today), all the compilations
- completed, but while linking the kernel "loading vmunix", the
- thing core dummped, BUMMER! i found the file core.cp, what? the
- cp file core dumped, odd...
-
- so i recompiled, rm and cp and copied them back into /bin. i rebooted
- again this time only cp core dumped, not rm??? so i go back
- to the source directory for cp, and tried cp'ing some stuff, no
- problem, i then try cp'ing back to /bin. [someting happend]
- can't remember what, but i started getting core dumps when tring
- to cp across filesystems. i then went into / and tried
- cp'ing, the command completed but never created the new file????
- never gave an error just did not create the new file.
-
- and that's were i'm at now. when i get off work i'm going back to
- try to conquer this beast, or kill it. i'm affraid editing out
- the bad sectors flag from the disklabel, may be the culprit,
- i'd hate to think about reinstalling everything again, but if
- i have to... this will be about the 15 time starting from 0.0
- back in march, so i guess i should be getting good at it. i'm
- also concerned that the C compiler somehow got zonked, but if
- that was the case i would think the executable it produced would
- bomb out or not even run.
-
- anyway, sorry for the long typed explanation, but if you've read
- this far, thanx, and if you have any suggestions i would *really*
- be greatfull. if not sympathy would be nice 8^/.
-
- So long,
-
- --
-
- - rusty
-
- Rusty Eddy
-
- eddy@usc.edu
- rusty@kirra.ema.rockwell.com (310) 922-1231
-
-
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