Subject: Re: Restore CD: New build script, 3.99.17 iso
To: Dennis Chernoivanov <cdi@mawhrin.net>
From: Claudio Leiva S <cleivas@cox.net>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 04/11/2006 10:49:37
Hi:

I tried the new Restore CD (3.99.17) and it works very good; It took less 
than 25 minutes to install NetBSD in a 30 gigs hard drive, thanks Dennis for 
all your work.



Claudio Leiva
Las Vegas, Nevada
USA
http://cleiva.no-ip.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Rushmere" <pete@rushmere.org>
To: "Dennis Chernoivanov" <cdi@mawhrin.net>
Cc: <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: Restore CD: New build script, 3.99.17 iso


> Hi Dennis,
>
>>  Tried that, doesn't seem to make any difference. Weird, my 6GB HDD gets
>>formatted in a matter of seconds...
>
> I can't make any sense of it either, all I could try was taking some 
> output from the console during install....
>
> This is your original 1.6.1 restore cd...
>
>  ------------------------------------------------
>   Setting up /var...
>  ------------------------------------------------
>
> /dev/wd0f:      4195296 sectors in 4162 cylinders of 16 tracks, 63 sectors
>         2048.5MB in 13 cyl groups (330 c/g, 162.42MB/g, 19968 i/g)
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>       32,  332736,  665440,  998144, 1330848, 1663552, 1996256, 2328960,
>  2661664, 2994368, 3327072, 3659776, 3992480,
>
>
> ...and this is from the 3.99 cd...
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>   Disk Setup: Format /var
>  ------------------------------------------------
>
> /dev/wd0f: 2048.5MB (4195296 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
>         using 12 cylinder groups of 170.72MB, 10926 blks, 21504 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck_ffs -b #) at:
> 32,
> 349664,
> 699296,
> 1048928,
> 1398560,
> 1748192,
> 2097824,
> 2447456,
> 2797088,
>
> ...which seems to take twice as long.
>
> Sorry I couldn't be more help here,
> Kind Regards,
> Pete.