Hi:

    This is exactly what we have done. When we restart sysint after fixing
the geometry and go through the program when  we get to the custom
partitions, if we say partitions ok, we don't see our partitions only one big
drive Even though we could see the partitions when we ran the disklabel and
the install program works if we accept this. If I try to repartition though,
I keep getting the same error, then I go in and look at disklabel at the
geometry and it's reset to what it was.  Does this mean our partitions are
there or not after we restart sysinst (by accepting the partitions ok)???

Thanks
Josh J

Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> 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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> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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