Subject: Re: installing problems
To: Kevin Havener <havenerk@Walden.MO.NET>
From: Robert Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/20/1998 19:46:53
Kevin Havener <havenerk@Walden.MO.NET> wrote:

>I first made a 500 M mac and 700 M BSD partition.  Did not work.  Then I 
>made a 500, 500, 200--the middle 500 was a BSD partition, forget where 
>swap was.  Did not work.  Then made a 50 M swap, a 500 root+user, a 500 M 
>Mac and a 200 M mac.  Damn if that didn't fix it.  You're going to have 
>to convince me there isn't a 1G problem of some sort with this disk.  I 
>reformatted the thing a zillion times and let Silverlining thrash on it 
>(reading and writing sectors) for 8 continous hours.  Near as I can tell, 
>only moving the BSD partition to the front of the disk (and away from 1G 
>mark) worked.  YMMV. (and no, I didn't mess with the cabling at any time)

Just what version of Mkfs and the Installer were you using?  This does 
sound like the 1Gig limit problem, but that only occured with old 
versions of Mkfs and the Installer.

-bob