Subject: Re: Installation Problems
To: Nieznaj Piotr <piotr.nieznaj@nkp.alfaskop.se>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/31/1999 14:15:32
>I dunno if i write this to the right mailinglist, if i dont please excuse me
>and please help me.

This is the correct mailing list and your English is great.

>Anyway, to the problem.
>I have a machine an Toshiba Tecra 780DVD (laptop) with 7.8 gb hd, 128 mb
>ram, pentium II 266 and other misc things.
>When i try to install NetBSD 1.3.3 strange things happens.
>The sysinst is creating sucessfully the partitions but it refuses to create
>an disklabel.

Is your problem creating the BIOS partition table in the MBR, or
creating the BSD disklabel?

There were problems with disks larger than about 8.4 gigabytes (due to
the BIOS C/H/S limit on BIOSes without extensions for larger disks )
but you're well short of that. You may be encountering a rounding or
truncation but bug in sysinst's calculation of disk sizes. 

Your best bet may be Either installing a recent NetBSD-1.3K snapshot,
or (as Perry suggested) waiting till Monday and trying a 1.4_ALPHA
snapshot.