[CUWiN-Dev] mdprep script on drives with incorrect geometry

[David Young]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 05:44:10PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 05:34:13PM -0500, tom wrote:
> > I took a look at one of the nodes that I think has the wrong geometry 
> > flashed onto it, at the house of Jamie Kimberley (505 S Birch). His node 
> > was demonstrating something that I hadn't noticed in others: dhcpd didn't 
> > seem to be running. After bootup it just wasn't there. Manually setting an 
> > IP and SSH'ing in revealed this.
> > 
> > Running the mdprep script Dave sent me a little while ago spit out a couple 
> > errors (for one, trying to stop dhcpd when it wasn't running) but did seem 
> > to do its business. Copying a new memorydisk image a rebooting didn't seem 
> > to do anything, however - the disk image disappeared upon reboot but 
> > nothing seemed to change. And I'm not sure anything got deleted, because 
> > the node still functioned in its limping state.
> > 
> > So, in short: this didn't work, but I'm going to try again later. Maybe I 
> > ran the script incorrectly.
> 
> After you run mdprep, make sure:
> 
>         * there is no /netbsd

You have to copy in the /netbsd.gz before this step:

>         * there is a /netbsd.gz
> 

Dave

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