On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 @ 7:52pm (+0200), Tomas Svensson wrote:

TS> Hi,
TS>
TS> I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.6 but no matter what I always end up with
TS> label d (whole disk) that is not the whole disk:
TS>
TS>    Size      Offset     End
TS>    --------- ---------  ---------
TS> c: 1628      0          1627       (NetBSD partition)
TS> d: 1271      356        1627       (Whole disk)


...i'm about to send-pr about some instanity i'm seeing in the sysinst
partition editor.

did you try to set the geometry by hand?

if you don't mind starting over from scratch, you can always blow away a
corrupt disk label with dd(8) from the shell:

dd of=/dev/rwd0d if=/dev/zero bs=8k count=1

-lava