Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 01:43:07 +0100 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: CD-1.1 & 1.7 Gig FS - Someone in Germany, preferably near Heidelberg ? Message-ID: <199501170043.BAA29561@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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There's a guy with an installation problem `out of inodes' his environ: 1.7 G scsi cd 1.1 (he told it 255 heads 63 sectors 214 cyls 486 dx 33MHz adaptec 1542cf BTW linux, os/2, dos all run ok I spent some time telling him to try: first slowing the bus, then dd if=/dev/rsd0d of=/dev/null & see if it reports 34000 sectors ( also to check if freebsd can handle the Then do fsck /dev/rsd0a ; fsck /dev/rsd0d Then maybe assume 1.7G breaks freebsd-1.1, & lie to the installation, about disc capacity, & go for a 1.3G file system (as my 1.4G was acceptable to freebsd-1.1) He's supposed to be an experienced unix guy i believe, so i guess it was just an oversight that he tried fsck <with no parameters, thus reading floppy etc/fstab i guess> he noticed it accessed the floppy, & didnt guess to try fsck something (like /dev/rsd0a) As a last resort, I also pointed out the 2.0 CD-ROM was now available from Walnut Creek, but that I couldnt remember when any large disc file system problem may have been fixed. anyway, if there's a friendly freebsd person nearer him than me in Munich, he'd be grateful, (simply mail me your tel no, & i'll tell him when he phones me next, so he can phone you, so you don't get a phone bill He is German, so if a fellow national is willing for him to contact you, he'd also probably be pleased to no longer have his ears assaulted by my poor German pronunciation & grammar ;-) He is: Rudiger Studanski, Haupstr 55 Heidelberg plz 69117 06221 12401 ab 20:30 privat buro (tagsuber darmstadt 06151 108303 0900-1900 Email ? ... No he doesn't have that ! (no provider & no freebsd to drive it) Anyone feel like letting him phone you sometime ? PS I wouldn't rush to suggest loads of things for me to ask him, I can't afford to phone Heidelberg for free remote debugs he really just needs a friendly _local_ FreeBSD guy, not me about 600 kilometers away. PPS (He got my name from cd-rom:/SUPPORT.TXT, where it clearly says COMMERCIAL SUPPORT, but he of course turned into yet another request for free telephone support, (Perhaps one day some real company near me (Munich) will start using FreeBSD, (yup, I know `go out & promote it' is the answer :-) --- Julian Stacey <stacey@freefall.cdrom.com>,<jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> ( <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> is an intermittent phone link )
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