NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/unix/bsd/10637

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From: [e-mail] (Greg Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 386bsd - reinstall woes
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Date: 26 Dec 92 15:45:02 GMT
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Organization: Notre Dame Women's College, Kyoto, Japan.
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I have 386bsd-0.1 running on one SCSI hard disk, and I want to
transfer it to a larger one (Maxtor XT-8760S).

I began to install the system on the new disk (the whole disk), but
the install program was interrupted. When I restarted "Tiny 386bsd"
and ran install again, it reported that it was installed, then asked
if I wanted to reinstall the system.  When I answered 'y', it went
into a loop, repeating the same message.

I have tried several ways of getting out of this loop:

  - FDISK and FORMAT in MS-DOS (FAT is messed up)
  - Boot from the old hard disk, mount the new one (kmem error)
  - cp the necessary files to the hard disk (file permissions became 644)

None of these worked. When I try to boot from the hard disk, 386bsd
starts up, looking for a kernel.  That's as far as it gets.

Does anyone have a suggestion?  Ideally, I would like to put a small
MS-DOS partition on the disk (in hindsight), but I would be happy with
386bsd-only as well.

Is there a version of the install program that doesn't go into an
endless loop when you try to reinstall?  Or, lacking that, is there a
way to get the original install program to reinstall the system?

Thanks, and Merry Christmas from Japan.

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Greg Peterson - [e-mail]
Notre Dame Women's College, Kyoto, JAPAN (Phone: [phone])
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