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Re: bad disktab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Oct 19 08:57:37 1998
To: Robby Griffin <rmg@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@foobarbaz.mit.edu, rmg@foobarbaz.mit.edu,
xela@foobarbaz.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:41:33 EDT."
<199810190841.EAA09457@foobarbaz.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:57:13 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> It'd be Really Nice (tm) if the NetBSD installation process included
> an optional partitioning step with an interactive fdisk though
The "secret" way to do this is to ^C and run fdisk after you're
connected to AFS or the NFS server.
I can add an informational message at the beginning of install.sh
which says you can expect to have a full suite of commands (fdisk,
etc.) after ^Cing out of the install at that point.
> disklabel: partition d: partition extends past end of unit
Thank you very much for the careful documentation on this issue; it
made it very clear what was going on. It is an offshoot of a
workaround I added to another problem, and I can fix it by adding an
su value to the disktab.
To make your disk's label more correct, you may want to run "disklabel
-e" and:
* Change "sectors/unit" to 1592568
* Change partition d's size to 1592568
