UNIXpc weirdness on bootup - into shell

John B. Milton jbm at uncle.UUCP
Wed Aug 2 10:40:52 AEST 1989


In article <5436 at nucleus.UUCP> doc at nucleus.UUCP (Dave Mundhenk) writes:
...
A strings of /unix uncovers these tidbits:
/etc/init
/bin/sh

>A QUESTION: If you decide to use multiple filesystems [the adv.diags.
>let you define multiple partitions] how do you keep the installation
>from creating one big filesystem across partitions? I defined two
>partitions: fp002=9000 blocks and fp003=~9000 blocks. After installing
>the Foundation and logging in, 'df -t' shows ~11000 blocks free, total
>of 18000. 
Look again. The diag uses "logical blocks" of 1k, the file system uses 512
bytes blocks. 9000 x 2 = 18000. The other 18000 are out there waiting...

>Where in the Foundation set install does the mkfs take place (floppy
>boot?) and what can I do to change the defaults?
>[postnews was hosed on holin and I had to post from nucleus.
> please respond to me on one of the systems below if possible.]
The floppy boot, floppy boot and floppy file system are all mountable:

mount /dev/fp021 /mnt
umount /dev/fp021

John
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