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- From: rhealey@rogue.digibd.com (Rob Healey)
- Subject: Re: ufs boot partitions are certain death!
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- References: <1jm1btINN356@zikzak.apana.org.au> <1993Jan23.182230.3822@rzu-news.unizh.ch> <VANDEL.93Jan25163132@disuns2.epfl.ch>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:28:04 GMT
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- In article <VANDEL.93Jan25163132@disuns2.epfl.ch>, vandel@di.epfl.ch (Jean-Marc Vandel) writes:
- |> Are you really sure to use ufs ? I installed Amix 2.1 asking for an ufs root
- |> partition, but when I did a 'showrdb' I was very surprised to see :
- |>
- |> # Name Start Blocks Size Flags
- |>
- |> 1: UNIX_Root 128 307200 150 MB mb P0 C0 F0x554e4901
- |> ^^
- This is a screw up in the rdb part of the install script, if
- you are SURE you specified ufs in the install script you HAVE
- ufs. Just create a 16 character file name and see if it works.
- UNIX ignores this field of the RDB and so does ADOS so it's
- more for looks than anything else.
-
- -Rob
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