Subject: Re: installing problems
To: Robert Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com>
From: Kevin Havener <havenerk@Walden.MO.NET>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/20/1998 23:47:20
Just like Rodney, I was using the latest and greatest: mkfs 1.45 and
installers 1.1f and 1.1g.
Kevin
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Robert Nestor wrote:
> Kevin Havener <havenerk@Walden.MO.NET> wrote:
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> >I first made a 500 M mac and 700 M BSD partition. Did not work. Then I
> >made a 500, 500, 200--the middle 500 was a BSD partition, forget where
> >swap was. Did not work. Then made a 50 M swap, a 500 root+user, a 500 M
> >Mac and a 200 M mac. Damn if that didn't fix it. You're going to have
> >to convince me there isn't a 1G problem of some sort with this disk. I
> >reformatted the thing a zillion times and let Silverlining thrash on it
> >(reading and writing sectors) for 8 continous hours. Near as I can tell,
> >only moving the BSD partition to the front of the disk (and away from 1G
> >mark) worked. YMMV. (and no, I didn't mess with the cabling at any time)
>
> Just what version of Mkfs and the Installer were you using? This does
> sound like the 1Gig limit problem, but that only occured with old
> versions of Mkfs and the Installer.
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> -bob
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