On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Thomas Marx wrote:

> Hi!
> I have installed BSD on myADFS 5 drive. I used the complete drive from cyl 0
> to the end. Now mounting HD5a or HD5e gives
> 'Bad filecore bootblock
> 7
> Filecore boot block checksum failed'
> 
> What is this?

unixfs uses information in the Risc OS partition of a diocs to find the
RiscBSD partition - if you dedicate an entire disc to RiscBSD, there's no
Risc OS partition  - so unixfs dosn't work. IMHO this is a problem with
unixfs. to transfer stuff from Risc BSD to Risc OS youre either going to
have to use floppys or if you're on a lan ftp and nfs etc...

> Another thing : Who do I spindown drived undex BSD which I do not use?

if you mean you ADFS::4 drive which Risc BSD ignores completly you can use
one of the HD spindown programs for Risc OS (!SpinCtrl and !Spindown spring
to mind) - if it's a mounted drive under Risc BSD - it won't spin down, Risc
BSD access the discs at regualler intervals so the drive never idels long
enough. (see 'man update' for details).

This actually reminds me of a bug which I forgot to tell anyone - I had a 5
minuite spindown delay on my Risc BSD disc from when it was a Risc OS disc,
beacause of update etc, it never spun down until the day I hung around in
single-user mode whilst I went to get lunch (I'd left it fscking)- when
I came back it had finished fscking with no errors so I pressed control-D to
go multiuser, unfortyunatly in the meantime the hd had spundown, and didn't
spinup again fast enough for the kernels licking - panic...
 
> Another: I installed emacs and it worked fine. But someday it just crashes
> when I start it, make a frame and open a file. Is it possible that this
> has something with a colouring of text to do? The systems tells me sometimes
> that it has problem with colourtables. When I install the emacs-bn set again
> it works.

X has a fixed number of 'slots' in it's palette - if you use them all, you
can't have any more colours, most programs have an -install option to get
around this.

> And the last: I use the afterstep. But everytime I start X it looks different.
> Sometimes the colours are missing, sometimes the Icon in the Wharf are missing
> etc. Anyone any Idea?

nope sorry!

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