Subject: installation help: boot partition too full?
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Doug McLean <douginhanoi@yahoo.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 04/19/2003 13:21:30
Hello all,

First I wanted to say that I really appreciate all
your guys's work.  I have an Indy R4600 that I
obtained from a University surplus.  It has a 1GB
drive, and all the usual pieces in place.

I successfully booted the netbsd-INDY_INSTALL.ecoff
kernel from a NetBSD dhcp server (running on a sparc
5), and sysinit works fine.

However, the problem is that when I have selected my
partiitions, regardless of the setup, I get an error
when NetBSD attempts to setup these partitions.  The
error happens when sgivol tries to write something to
the boot partition of the hard disk.  It says
something about sgivol being x number of bytes (around
50000), and then it says "No space left".

Any clues as to what is wrong?  I read something about
maybe needed Irix's fx tool, but I think the disk
already has an Irix volume label.  Does that volume
label need to be cleared out or something?

Thanks in advance!

=====
Doug McLean,
Proud Member of the vast Communist Conspiracy

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