Date:        Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:15:42 +0200
    From:        "Bruce Martin" <brucem@cat.co.za>
    Message-ID:  <NFBBJGHFKLGPMPFNJNAIGENNCNAA.brucem@cat.co.za>

This has (no longer) anything to do with poirt-i386 - put future
questions like this on netbsd-help

  | Do you know why this doesn't work?

The default filesystem parameters aren't intended for filesystems that
big.

You need less cylinder groups (20 or 30 would do, but making that few might
be difficult).   That's done by allocating more cylinders per cyl group
than the default of 16.   Ty the -c option to newfs - for your drive, I'd 
suggest something like -c 256  (maybe -c 128).

kre