Subject: Re: bb_netbsd figure
To: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
From: Lewis <lgw21@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-acorn32
Date: 07/06/2004 09:56:02
Yeah, about 15gb of stuff I don't really want to lose (again). It prompts 
me for a figure for the bsd start cylinder, but doesn't error out. I'm 
loathe to give it one tho so I can't tell you if it crashes after that ...

Lewis

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On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Gavan Fantom wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Lewis wrote:
>
>> Probably a dumb newb question, but I figured I'd be certain anyway before
>> proceeding...
>
> It's not a dumb question, it's a bug.
>
>> Having partitioned my 40Gb ADFS drive into two partitions (well, having
>> created a 20Gb filecore partition on it anyway), I ran bb_netbsd, which
>> presented me with a negative figure for the size of the filecore
>> partition: -2837 cylinders (0--2838)
>
> Does it actually error out at this point, or does continuing actually
> work?
>
> Do yo uhave any data in the filecore partition yet?
>
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