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To: donal.tobin@cs.tcd.ie (Donal Tobin)
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Subject: Re: A question for you. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:36:02 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 06:02:43 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@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