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Re: installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Sep 12 12:43:08 1997
To: Qian Z Wang <qzwang@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:20:58 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:42:52 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Hrm, pfdisk doesn't like your partition table. Not really sure why;
the numbers look to be in order to me.
When the install errors out and gives you a prompt, run "fdisk
/dev/rwd1d | more". What geometries does it give you? It may be that
NetBSD can't determine the number of cylinders correctly (a tricky
problem), but I would still expect it to be able to get close to the
right number of cylinders and thus be able to find space.
You can create a NetBSD partition by hand by running "fdisk -u
/dev/rwd1d". In the third partition slot, create a partition
beginning at sector 5636736 with a length of 661248 sectors, with type
165. Then reboot and try the installation again.
