Kevin Havener <havenerk@Walden.MO.NET> wrote:

>None of us could say what's causing the error.   I suspect that it won't 
>install if the partition crosses the 1023 cylinder limit.  Others report 
>a mismatch between the drive geometry (C/H/S) reported by mkfs and ffs.  
>One who got it to work got a minimal system going on a small root at the 
>front of the disk.  Then used *BSD to install the rest--thus he was able 
>to report the geometry mismatch.  The rest of us, like you, couldn't get 
>that far.

I doubt there is a problem with the 1023 cylinder limit.  We did have a 
problem with Mkfs and the Installer not handling drives larger than 1Gig, 
but that was a long time ago and both have been fixed (long before 
OpenBSD appeared).  In fact the fixes were tested on my 1.6Gig drive a 
year or so ago.  Since then I've moved up to a 9Gig drive without a 
problem.  Also the drive geometry on SCSI disks shouldn't be an issue.  
Worst case you'd probably see some performance degradation, but shouldn't 
see any file corruption.  However, if it realy worries you it's possible 
to tell Mkfs what parameters to use.   Most likely the problem is 
insufficent RAM for the Installer, or possibly a SCSI termination issue 
if it's an external drive.  Active Termination on the SCSI bus can't hurt 
and in many cases it sure helps.

-bob