On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:18:11AM -0400, jjohns wrote:
> Okay, I did this - I set up the partitions (using custom)

You need to get to the point where it tries to create the filesystems,
with newfs failing. Before that the new disklabel isn't created.

Then exit sysinst, run 'disklabel ld0' to check that your partitions are
here. Then 'disklanel -i ld0' to change the geometry. Don't forget to
use 'W' to save your changes !
Then disklabel ld0 to chech that your changes were saved.
Now you can restart sysinst.

BTW, are you installing 1.5 or 1.5.1 ? I'm not sure this will work with
the 1.5 sysinst.

> 
> 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)

Maybe you could try to change this one too (/5)

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