Hi Manuel:
Sorry to bother you - yet again- and you'll have to pardon my ignorance.. however, I have a
question...

At what point do you run the disklabel -i ld0 command to change the geometry?? I tried it - went
through to the partition point - exited from sysinst and changed it.. then when I ran the
sysinst again - I got the same error. I guess my real question is - once you make the change to
the geometry - how do you get back into the sysinst to continue with the install - or is there
another procedure that I need to follow after this?

Thank you again - for your help and patience.

Joshua Johns

Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0400, jjohns wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > No, 120G isn't a problem. Don't you see any other error message ?
> > > Try to get a shell (a ^C should work) and type:
> > > disklabel ld0
> > > check that the partitions you created exists
> > > mount /dev/ld0a /mnt
> > > and report error message
> > >
> > > --
> > > Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> >
> > Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
> >
> > We just tried it again and this time we got a different error.
> > For starters here is our config:
> > / 1 gig
> > /swap 2 gig
> > /usr 2 gig
> > /var 1 gig
> > /data - rest of disk  approx 108 gig  (we also tried breaking this into 2-54Gig partitions
> > with the same result)
> >
> > Here is the error message we got this time (though we didn't get it before)
> >
> > status: failed
> > /sbin/newfs /dev/rld0a
> > press any key to continue
> >
> > with 16065 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinders per group is 64
> > This requires the block size to be changed from 8192 to 32768 and the fragment size to be
> > changed from 1024 to 4090.
> >
> > So... this is probably a little more meaningful.  How and where do we change this?
>
> Oh, OK, this error again.
> Please check http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2001/07/25/0008.html
> I explained here how to work around this. Just change sd0 with ld0 :)
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> --