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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014
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Jordan K. Hubbard, On 16-Oct-98 you wrote:
> > I am installing, from scratch, on a known-to-be-good system, FreeBSD
> > 3.0-CURRENT, the snapshot from 14-Oct (compiled here) and getting the
> > following error messages during filesystem creation:
> > 
> > [ After newfs lists superblocks ]
> > 
> > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): cros-device link
> > newfs: /mnt/dev/rda0s4a cant rewrite disk label.
>  
>  FWIW, I've seen this reported by 2-3 other people as well (and not
>  with DPT controllers) but I'm buggered if I can reproduce it here on
>  any of my test boxes.  Can you tell me a bit more about what
>  installation
>  type you're using, whether the disks are being installed "dangerously
>  dedicated", are shared with other OSes, etc?

I can reliablyreproduce it at will.

Novice installation, creating an fdisk partition with 1 DOS partition in
da0s1a, a 1024MB type 165 in da0s2 and da0s3, and a 2GB+ (or whatever is
left over) in da0s4.

Freebsd labls chop these into root, tmp, var, var/tmp, var/spool, var/log,
var/qmail, var/account, usr, usr/X11R6, usr/local, usr/local/pgsql,
usr/local/pgsql/data, home, SourceControl, Archives, and so on.

If you want, drop me a line and I'll let you in to the machine in question.


Sincerely Yours,                 Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
                                             770.265.7340
Simon Shapiro

Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth


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