Re: Stalled Installation

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%theory.cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> Device: "scsi.device"  Unit: 5  Capacity: 810.5 Megs
> DiskVendor: QUANTUM  DiskProduct TRB850S          DiskRevision: 0404
> Cylinders: 3242  Heads: 1  Blks-p-Trk: 512 [Blks-p-Cyl: 512]
> Total Blocks: 1659904  Block Size 512           (sd1?)
> 
> --| Partition: "Swap" Capacity: 64.7 Megs
> --| Start Block: 1024  End Block: 133631 Total Blocks: 132608
> --| Block Size: 512                             (sd1a)   datatype 0x4e425301

No. Thats "sd1b".

> --| Partition: "SwapLinux" Capacity: 65.7 Megs
> --| Start Block: 133632  End Block: 268287 Total Blocks: 134656
> --| Block Size: 512                             (sd1b)   datatype amiga ffs

No, that's sd1d.

> --| Partition: "LinuxSources" Capacity: 66.2 Megs
> --| Start Block: 268288  End Block: 403967 Total Blocks: 135680
> --| Block Size: 512                             (sd1c)   datatype amiga ffs

No, thats sd1e.

> --| Partition: "root" Capacity: 208.2 Megs
> --| Start Block: 403968  End Block: 830463 Total Blocks: 426496
> --| Block Size: 512                             (sd1d)   datatype 0x4e425207

No, thats sd1a.

> --| Partition: "usr" Capacity: 405.0 Megs
> --| Start Block: 830464  End Block: 1659903 Total Blocks: 829440
> --| Block Size: 512                             (sd1e)   datatype 0x4e425507

No, that's sd1f.

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>       sd1? is the drive involved with NetBSD.  The datatype was
> obtained from the HardDriveToolBox.  Two partitions (sd1b and sd1c) are
> not involved, however.  Does more need to be done than just setting the
> codes for datatypes?
> 
>       Miniroot.fs was installed easily as follows:
> 
>       xstreamtodev --input=miniroot.fs --rdb-name=Swap
>       found partition: "Swap" capacity: 64.7 Megs
> ;; correct decision!
>       start block: 1024  end block: 133631 total blocks: 132608
>       block Size: 512
> 
>       dumping to: start block: 1024 to end block: 133631 [size: 66303K]
> ;; why a dump, of what?

Dumping your filesystem image onto the partition.

>       write from file "miniroot.fs" to partition "Swap"? [Ny]:y 
> ;; y
>       reading: 00009216 -> 00009315  [  6%]
> ;; why 6%, of what?    seems correct!

6% of the partition.

> 
>       Running loadbsd-2.14 -b netbsd ran well to the line:
>               10 views configured
> Then appeared
> 
> warning found rdb->secpercyl (166) != rdb->nsectors (42) * rdb->nheads (4)
> warning lp->d_sparespercyl (2)  not multiple of lp->d_ntracks (4) 
> 
> This seems to involve the MAXTOR drive which is not involved in the
> NEtBSD setup.
> 
>       The program asks for information on root and dump partitions.  I
> would like sd1d to be the root and sd1b could be allowed if sd1a would be
> inappropriate.  Defaults of sd1a and sd1b are recommended.

No you wouldn't. You want sd1b for the installation, and later sd1a for normal
work.

>       A filesystem, apparently for the dump partition, may be chosen
> from ffs (amiga?), nfs, msdos or cd9600.  Trying many combinations, I
> have not been able to get past this point.  Ruefully, I submited with the
> halt option.

No, for the root partition. And you want "ffs", which is the Berkeley fast file
system (contrary to the old Unix file system). The AmigaOS file systems are
called "adosfs" ;-) Actually, just pressing Return will give you "generic",
which is an auto-detect option, which should, normally, work.

Regards,
        -is