On Sat, Sep 6, 2003 at  7:11pm, sgimips NetBSD list wrote:
> Subject: Can't disklabel (was Re: New-and-improved snapshot available)

Aha...

Apparently NetBSD's sysinst program will not deal with a drive other
than sd0 (I was attempting an install on sd1).

Once I removed sd0 from the machine (and sd1 became sd0), it is installing
now.

Caveat emptor.

-scott

> Chris, and other Noggers,
> 
> Well, it seems that NetBSD/sgimips is suffering from the NetBSD Legacy...
> Defining a disk label in sysinst failes with the infamous "out of space"
> error:
>  
>  We now have your BSD-disklabel partitions as (Start, End and Size in MB).
>  This is your last chance to change it.
>  
>         Start       End      Size FStype Newfs Mount Mount point
>     --------- --------- --------- ------ ----- ----- -----------
> uid 0, pid 62, command sysinst, on /: file system full
>  
> /: write failed, file system is full
> [1]   Segmentation fault
> # Filesystem  512-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/md0a         7879     5359      2520    68%    /
> kernfs               2        2         0   100%    /kern
>  
> I can't get past this, so I'll have to go compute the disklabel
> by hand and perform the newfs on each one manually.
>  
> I'm too distracted to go looking for the references on the other
> lists about this problem, but I've seen it elsewhere (everywhere)? :)
>  
> -scott
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