Re: 1.3.3 Setup

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 12:56:19AM -0800, Ola Olsson wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:04:46 -0500,
> Jeff Gill <jtgill%Mis.net@localhost> wrote about Re: 1.3.3 Setup:
> > I had problems like that, both during install, and after managing to
> > install, with just running, every now and then I'd get some errors.
> > SO I partitioned my drive and made sure (after watching the newfs
> > command talk about 16 cyl/group) that my partitions were multiples
> > of 16.   I had some left over space, and just made it a small
> > amigaOS partition where I keep a kernel to boot into NetBSD.  This
> > may or may not help.  On another note, I use a seagate barracuda
> > for my NetBSd system, and I have another seagate, a hawk, attached,
> > and it's geometry really confuses bsd, so you may have a problem like
> > that.
> 
> Interesting. My drive is an IBM DDRS-34560 4.3 Gig SCSI connected to a
> WarpEngine. The first BSD partition starts at about 2.3 gigs. I'm
> using the latest Amiga FFS and LoadV43Module to allow the use of these
> large drives. My previous drives have all been 2 gigs max. Have I
> reached a limit that NetBSD doesn't like?
> 
> Also, I use HDInstTools to prep my HD's these days. It seems to be
> more robust than HDToolbox, plus it understands large drives. The only
> problem is it doesn't allow me to enter hex numbers for the dostype.
> It reports that the root partition has a dostype of "NBR\7." Has
> anyone else used HDInstTools and can tell me what "NBR\7"?

Thats a different method to write 0x4e425207.

\7 in a C string == octal 7 == hex 0x07

        -is