Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:46:51 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD from DOS partition Message-ID: <21936.822862011@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:02:17 EST." <9601281602.AA13485@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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> I have a strong suspicion as to what is going on. I was able to install > the minimal FreeBSD distribution from floppy. I guess that means that I already answered this one in another mail, but I'll repeat it here: > The partitions were created as follows: I got the disk from the > manufacturer formatted as a single DOS partition. I used FIPS to > truncate it and This is the issue. Apparently FIPS is not as friendly a utility as we thought, and it truncates the partition without also adjusting the cluster size. For certain drive geometries (e.g. not all the time, so we didn't notice this ourselves) our MSDOS filesystem driver chokes up and is unable to read the files off of it properly. This is the problem you're experiencing. I'm also afraid that the solutions are somewhat painful just now. Either back up the DOS stuff and literally reinstall it from scratch (e.g. make a new partition that didn't come about through FIPS) or use some medium other than DOS to install. We're working on this one, and all I can say is "sorry about this!" for now.. :-( Jordan
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