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From: karp-brad@CS.YALE.EDU (Brad Karp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Installation of Mach on IBM RT
Keywords: IBM RT installation
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Date: 3 Oct 90 04:54:34 GMT
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We recently obtained the IBM RT distribution of Mach, including full sources
and the IBM RT Common Lisp implementation.

While following the instructions in the installation guide for Mach on the RT,
I met with only partial success. I booted the distribution floppies just fine,
and mounted the miniroot successfully.

When I ran install.tape, I entered the parameters for our machine's hard disks
(we have an ESDI controller in this box, and three drives: two E70's and an
E114), and answered "yes" when asked whether the partitions should be created
for installation of the tapes. The mkfs commands for the Root/Sys0 tape and
the Usr0 tape went fine (these filesystems were all created on hd0). However,
the mkfs command for /dev/rhd1g failed each of the many times I tried it.
(install.tape attempts to create this filesystem for the Usr1/Sources tape.)
I gave up on having install.tape create the filesystem, and went ahead and
loaded the Root/Sys0 and Usr0 tapes, figuring I could create the filesystem
myself and _then_ load the Usr1/Sources tape onto the system.

I used the CMU disk management utility (DKW or is it DWK) to create a
filesystem on hd1, and when I accepted the defaults I was presented with, it
successfully created a filesystem on drive 1, called /dev/rhd1c. When I tried
to name the filesystem hd1g, it refused to make the filesystem. The problem
here is that install.tape expects the filesystem on drive hd1 to be named
hd1g.

Can anyone offer any advice as to what exactly might be causing this
predicament? I can't see any reason myself why the filesystem can't be built.
Mach appears to be functioning flawlessly other than this (rather significant)
detail.

Thanks.
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