Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!ssc!markz From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: /dev/dos/C -- link to what? Summary: fdisk and wn(7) Message-ID: <1276@ssc.UUCP> Date: 20 Jun 88 18:33:03 GMT References: <1958@hubcap.UUCP> Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 27 In article <1958@hubcap.UUCP>, mrspock@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Benz) writes: > I have a PC-designs ET286i, with a Bell Technologies (really Toshiba) > 72M disk. The disk is rather unimaginatively partitioned, partition 1 > is the DOS partition, 2 is the Unix partition. I'm running uPort 2.2.2. In the partition information from fdisk, the partition numbers go backwards so you may be using 4 and 3 from uport's point of view. Use fdisk to display but don't update the partition table. and look up in the manual section WN(7) for the name for the partition number for the dos. > ... > I've tried linking /dev/dos/C to /dev/dsk/0s5, /dev/dsk/0s6, and > /dev/dsk/0s7. > ... Use rdsk not dsk! I had to run divvy with the option to rebuild things (-u) before I could get anything. Using /dev/rdsk/0s5 with a unrebuilt partition table caused my file system to be smashed, scrambled, and spread all over the place. I deleted that node. That was when I first installed 2.2 . I recommend using a direct partition reference /dev/rdsk/0s6, 7, 8, 9 Mark Zenier Holder of the Cliff Claven chair at the school of uunet!pilchuck!ssc!markz Unsubstantiated Opinion