Re: 1.3.3 Setup

[Bernd Sieker <bsieker%techfak.uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>]

On 11.02.99, 07:20:35, Ola Olsson wrote:
> I need some help setting up 1.3.3 on a new drive. I have a 4.5 gig
> drive that has 5 partitions on it. The first two are AmigaDOS. The
> last three are NetBSD with the third, fourth, and fifth partitions
> root, usr, and swap respectively. I used HDToolBox to set the
> parameters according to the FAQ using custom DOS type and the
> appropriate dostype entries for each partition type. I turned
> automount off, custom boot code off, and reserved blocks to zero for
> all three. After copying the miniroot to swap I run loadbsd -b netbsd
> and find that my target NetBSD drive is "sd2." The default root
> partition is indicated to be "sd2a." Since my root is actually th
> third partition I enter "sd2c." For dump I used both "sd2e" and none
> and left filesystem as generic. Always I get an error:

It seems that you did not read the install document very carefully.
"c" is _not_ third partition on the disk. The layout is rather like
this:

a - root (no matter where it is located on the disk)
b - swap (no matter where it is located on the disk)
c - the whole disk! Do never use this, unless you _really_ know what
    you're doing!
d, e, ... - the other partitions on the disk, regardless of
            their type, so your first normal NetBSD partition
            will probably be sd2f (d and e being ADOS partitions).

So, during install, use sd2b as the root partition (assuming you
successfully transferred the miniroot to you swap partition, and
"none" for dump, as the documentation says.

Later, sd2a will be the root and sd2b the swap partition (also used
for dumps in case of a kernel panic)

> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Ola
> 

-- 
Bernd Sieker

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