Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 06:02:43 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: donal.tobin@cs.tcd.ie (Donal Tobin) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question for you. Message-ID: <28936.789832963@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:36:02 GMT." <199501111336.FAA28576@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> I am trying to install 2.0R on a machine here, however the newfs > fails on the disk. This is at the very begining of the install just after > the fdisk has been done. Does newfs do a scsi read capasity, or do you know How big is the disk? > offhand. Can extra otions to newfs be set, or is there some way to drop > into a shell. Ctrl-C and ESC-ESC both reboot the machine. Is there a floppy > I can build which will give me a shell through which I can do the work At that stage, no. But I could have a prompt for newfs arguments. You wouldn't be the first to need them. > manually. I now have a seperate temporary machine on which 2.0R is > installed with the srcdist and I can build on that. Thanks for your time > and help. I just adore the installation process. NB for a WD8013 the probe > incorrectly detects when the IRQ is at 2 and falsely reports that it is at > 5, I could have done without having to open up my machine to change > jumpers, when I eventually figured it out :->. You didn't read the TROUBLESHOOTING guide and see what to do in case of hardware conflict? The -c flag? :-) Jordan
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