Subject: Re: Problem with 1.3/sparc install
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Rob Deker <deker@digex.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/15/1998 20:07:09
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, David Brownlee wrote:

okie dokie....time to "man sendpr"

;)

rob

> 	That would be fine - its to ensure it gets noted & doesn't drop
> 	through the cracks :)
> 
> 		David/absolute
> 
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> 
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Rob Deker wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:01:28 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Rob Deker <deker@digex.net>
> > To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
> > Cc: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>,
> >     "(NetBSD/sparc Maillist)" <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
> > Subject: Re: Problem with 1.3/sparc install
> > 
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 
> > > 	(Have cc'ed to port-sparc as well)
> > > 
> > > 	NetBSD writes a SunOS compatible label onto the disk for the boot
> > > 	prom. Unfortunately SunOS can only allocate paritions in units
> > > 	of cylinders (no partiail cylinders), so NetBSD/sparc also has to
> > > 	starts and end partitions on cylinder boundaries.
> > > 
> > > 	The error messge should probably be more helpful - could you
> > > 	submit a PR to not this :)
> > > 
> > I suppose I could, but it would be not very much more than "please do 
> > something for us idiots out here" 
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > rob
> > 
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> > out the transceiver, down the rj45  | Senior Operations Engineer
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> > 
> 

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"Off the keyboard, through the CPU, | deker@digex.net 
out the transceiver, down the rj45  | Senior Operations Engineer
line, across the router, through    | 
the Hub, out the gateway.           |  
        Nothing but net."           | 
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