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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:51:38 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        acs@gate1.internet-eireann.ie, bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: v2.0 install
Message-ID:  <199503270451.OAA07747@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I've got an ESDI hard disk. The 1st partiton is 220 mb for DOS, and the
>rest, 101 mb, is for FreeBSD. I've booted off the boot_144.flp image and
>have done my fdisk work. I then used disklabel to set-up partition 'a' as 76
>mb for '/' and 'b' as 25 mb for 'swap'. So I've made everything as simple as
>possible. When I come out of disklabel and choose proceed, it comes up with
>a windows titled progress, saying 'newfs /dev/rwd0a' then the errors start
>happening; the 1st error says 'wd0 interrupt timeout status 59 error 0'.
>After a few more errors it comes up with a window titled fatal and says
>'exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code 9216'.

The disk apparently has unmarked bad sector.  If the disk has any bad
sectors, then FreeBSD-2.0 doesn't support it.  FreeBSD-2.1 should
support it.

Bruce



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