[H-GEN] Need help during install, or just after ;)

A Bruce In The Land Of The Bruces brucec at humbug.org.au
Tue Jun 9 19:18:36 EDT 1998


On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Michael wrote:

> I just got a brand new 6.4gig hdd installed and i partitioned it as such:

That reminds me, need to see how my similar size scsi drive is going ;)

> Now when i come to set up the "target" drives and format them 1 inode per
> 1024 bytes i believe i chose it seems to format hdb8 and hdb9 drives okish
> but when it comes to 10 and 11 it just seems to flick through the screen as
> if it hadn't formatted them correctly.  So i continue thru the install and
> when i reboot i get the following error messages
> 
> e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb10

Curiously enough, most installations only have the device files (in /dev)
up to 8 (eg, hdb1, hdb2, hdb3, hdb4, hdb5, hdb6, hdb7, hdb8) and do not
have anything in the install proggy to create them (oh, they've specified
a non-existant device file.  They know what they're doing, I won't
complain).

Easiest way around it is to not install to >8 during the install.  Once
the system is bootable you can mknod to your hearts content, and copy the
partitions over.  or (which may involve several reboots), get a shell
during the install and create the device files before you've told the
install program about them. (some installs make it hard to get a decent
shell :( )

--==--
Bruce.

Been there, done that ;)


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