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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!cognos!dbullis
- From: dbullis@cognos.com (Dave Bullis)
- Subject: ISC2.2.1: can't mkfs root during install
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.173336.7234@cognos.com>
- Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:33:36 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- I'm trying to install ISC2.2.1 on my 386 and it dies trying mkfs the root
- partition on my hard disk.
- The install lets me fdisk ok and it seems to have created the partition
- table ok. Poking around with mkpart looks ok.
- I can access /dev/rdsk/0p4 correctly.
-
- But, any access to /dev/rdsk/0s? results in errno 2.
-
- I had ISC2.2.2 installed on this disk before ok (for about 2 years)
- and had reinstalled it ok a week of so ago (after rearranging my disk).
- I booted it the other day and it paniced trying to mount root.
- I had been playing with Linux and so figured I trashed the disk somehow.
- No problem I thought, I'll just re-install ISC - NOT.
- I've tried ISC2.2 and 2.2.1 boot/install.
- I've tried deleting the partition under dos before installing (in case
- something was left around that shouldn't be)
- I've tried zeroing out the partition before installing.
- I've tried burning my DOS manuals at midnight under a full moon (usually helps)
-
- My setup:
- 80386 25Mhz, 64K cache, 4Mb DTK motherboard (please no DTK flames)
- 1007WA2 ESDI controller
- Miniscribe 330 Mb disk (1222x15x34)
- 2theMax VGA card + Viewsonic 5E screen
- Serial ports
-
- Dos and Linux in first 956 cylinders.
- Unix on partition 4, cylinders 957 to 1221
- (reserved, alt, swap and root below 1023 cylinders)
-
-
- Arghhhh!
-
- PS I asked earlier about installing ISC above 1023 cylinders. The consensus
- is that you need /unix and some things in /etc below 1023 cylinders and
- its probably easier to have all of root there. Also swap comes
- before root and you can't change it (not without major magic).
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