On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:07:21PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > It seems that whether I try to do an HD install or install from > floppy, I'm equally screwed. Let me outline my two scenarios of > screwage, after which I will throw myself upon the mercy of the forum: > > 1) Floppy install: > > Well, this one is pretty simple, really. The HFS boot floppy works > jim-dandy, but the ramdisk image on root.bin refuses to read and > causes an oops. That's because it's currently corrupted, right? I its trunicated yes, about 5k or so is missing from the end. gzip wont' like that. > admit I haven't tried the potato version of the floppy images, largely > because of Ethan's insistence that we'd all rather die lingering, > painful deaths than deal with the potato boot floppies at this late > date. they aren't quite that bad, but i have lost all patience for people who screw up and botch thier install by ignoring the fing manual. woody b-f make it significantly more difficult to screw up and then play dumb. > e) Enter mac-fdisk, and here's where the fun begins. If I do an 'i' > to reinitialize the partition table and then immediately do a 'w' > to write the new partition table, everything's cool. As soon as I > try to create any partitions, though, any attempts to write the > changed partition table thereafter cause an exception that reads > "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer at virtual address". At this > point both woody and potato chunder. just reboot, the partititon table will be fine. bug benh to fix the partition table reread ioctl. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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