D'ya get any messages?

Also, some substantive info about what release you're trying to install and
what hardware other than 500a might keep our telepathy hats from overheating.

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Laurence Brockman wrote:

> I'm trying to install NetBSD on a Dec 500a with a 9 gig quantum scsi drive.
> Everytime I get to the point where the partitions are supposed to be created
> I get the following error:
> 
>      Status: Failed 
>     Command: /sbin/newfs /dev/rsd0a
>      Press any key to continue
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> With 16065 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinders per group is 64
> This requires the block size to be changed from 8192 to 32768
>         and the fragment size to be changed from 1024 to 4096
> 
> At this point I'm just using the standard recomended partitions and any
> ideas would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> Laurence
> 
> --
> Laurence Brockman
> Unix Administrator
> Shaw CableSystems G.P.
> l.brockman@videon.ca
> (780) 486-6527
> 
>