On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Florian Stoehr wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Alvar Damm wrote:
>
>> I have prepared the partions in HDToolBox
>> and succesfully booted the miniroot.fs on the swap partion.
>> The problem comes when the installer tries to create the root filesystem.
>> Its says the filesystem is full?.
>> Im using the internal IDE connector.
>> So the HD should be wd0 and the root partion wd0a, swap wd0b.
>> I have also tried to manually create a filesystem
>> but same error.
>> All that work is mounting the ADOS(Amiga DOS)
>> filesystem.
>> 
>> this are the first errors:
>> 
>> creating filesystems...
>> uid, pid 309, command newfs, on -: file system full
>> /: write failed, file system is full
>> [1] Segmentation fault newfs /dev/r${_d...
>> 
>> I tried to mount too
>> mount_ffs -o async /dev/wd0a /mnt
>> mount_ffs: /dev/wd0a on /mnt: incorrect super block
>
> Well, this can't work without a FFS on it already
>
>> 
>> It seems that I can't for some reason create a filesystem on a partion.
>> 
>> Have I configured the HD wrong?
>> 
>> I have a 48Mhz Viper accelerator with MMU, but no FPU, and 32 MB Ram, 8 GB 
>> 2.5 Internal HD.
>
> You have an 8 GB disk. Remember, the bootable NetBSD partitions *MUST* be 
> within the first 4 GB!
>
> Perhaps you have 6 GB root and 2 GB swap? This won't work :-(
>
> (Although I'm not sure since your swap BOOTED already... hm...)
>
> Can you grab the first two tracks of the hd and send them to me OFF-LIST?
> (Should be about 1 Megabyte)
>
> The simplest way to achive this is to plug in the disk into another computer 
> as SLAVE disk and exectue (assume it's wd1):
>
> To get the sectors/track, execute
>
> disklabel wd1
>
> see what the "sectors/cylinder" value is (in my case 1008), and exectue the 
> following command with count=(sectors/track * 2):
>
> dd if=/dev/rwd1d of=disk.bin count=2016
>
> -Florian
>

Oh,

use /dev/rwd1d on i386, /dev/rwd1c on most other platforms, including 
amiga.

-Florian