Subject: Re: DEC 3000/400 ongoing saga...
To: Jeff Duffy <jeff@alanne.com>
From: rb <rb@bitbucket.co.uk>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/04/2001 23:24:38
Jeff Duffy wrote:
> 
> rb wrote:
> > Similarly, when dropping out of sysinst to the shell and running fsck on
> > sd0a, I get:
> >
> >     ** /dev/rsd0a
> >     BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> >     uid 0 on /: file system full
> >
> >     /: write failed, file system is full
> >     fsck: /dev/rsd0a: Floating point exception
> >
> 
>  Well, I just finished installs of NetBSD and FreBSD on a pair of alphastation 255s,
> 
>  and I had to put the disks preciously used by OSF/1 in another machine,
> 
>  delete the partitioning info on the drives and *then* install
> 
>   to get it to work properly. I was getting some of the same error
> messages; particularly "file system full". Bizarre, but they're humming
> along now, so you might try it.
> 
> Jef

This is good news...I knew I should have resisted that urge to start
snapping up drives on eBay! :c)

Thanks for the tip...! I'll mount the drive on a linux box and fdisk it
ASAP.

Rory Beaton
Dundee, Scotland

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