Subject: Re: installing on i386
To: Oleg Polyanski <luke@eed.miee.ru>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/12/1999 13:08:07
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Oleg Polyanski wrote:

> > 	Does sysint give any error messages when failing to write the
> > 	disklabel under 1.3.3?
> 
> 	nope. there was no any error messages. when i decide continue (after
> customizing partitions in disklabel) i get the following:
> 
> Writting the NetBSD disklabel....
> sd1: no disk label
> 
> 	and so on (newfs fails complaining `/dev/rsd1a: device not configured') etc.
> 
	Thats probably normal if its writing the label fro the first time.
	If you break to the command line and run disklabel sd1 does it 
	also report 'sd1: no disk label'.

> > 
> > 	As for the current snapshot - are ther any error messages before
> > 	the 'md0: / file system full', and could you check if there is
> > 	a core file on the filesystem?
> 
> 	(to be exact - this is netbsd 1.3h) no, there are no error messages and
> sysinst dumps to core.

	Ah - could you try a 1.3I floppy?

		David/absolute

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