Okay, I did this - I set up the partitions (using custom) then changed the geometry, then ran sysinst
again, however... it doesn't save the partitions. All I have if i accept the defaults is one huge
drive. No partitions at all.. i quit sysinst at this point (cos i accepted the defaults then hit
okay... and moved onto the next step) - and checked disklabel to see if the partitions were there and
what the numbers were set to and there were no partitions and all the numbers had been set back to the
originals.

Here are our numbers: ( we reduced 2 different times)
tracks/sec - 63 reduced to 21 (/3) and 9 (/7) - respectively
tracks/cyl - 255 (left unchanged)
sec/cyl - 16065 reduced to 5355 and 2295 respectively
cyl - 14608  increased to 43828 and 102256

What the heck is going on?? :-)

JoshJ

Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:39:22AM -0400, jjohns wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Exit from sysinst after partitionning your disk. Run disklabel -i ld0 and
> change geometry at this point. Then restart sysinst and choose 'custon
> partitioning' and accept the default values.
>
> BTW, by how much did you change your sec per cyl ? maybe it's still too big ?
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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