Subject: Re: Edlabel...?
To: David H West <David_H_West@dell.com>
From: Rob Deker <deker@digex.net>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/19/1997 11:55:59
On 17 Feb 1997, David H West wrote:

just remember, a block is 512 BYTES. 15 blocks is about 7k....

rob
>      Hey y'all,
>      
>      I am installing onto a 312mb disk. Using edlabel, I (or thought I) had 
>      partitioned the disk into a(root) b(swap) and c(rest of disk). a 
>      partition is 15 blocks, b is 120 blocks, and c is the rest(whatever, 
>      should be like slightly over 200 megs. I copied the miniroot into the 
>      swap partition, rebooted, and began to install. Everything was 
>      cruising along until tar began aborting all extractions due to "no 
>      disk free space". Is there some syntax to point "install" at the c 
>      partition or is it possible my disk isn't labeled correctly...?
>      
>      "print" under edlabel showed the partitions of types:
>      4.2BSD (for root)
>      swap   (for swap)
>      unknown (for the disk) even though I entered 4.2BSD under edlabel.
>      
>      Any clues will be snarfed up gratefully....
>      
>      --->DW
>       
> 

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