On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0400, jjohns wrote:
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> > No, 120G isn't a problem. Don't you see any other error message ?
> > Try to get a shell (a ^C should work) and type:
> > disklabel ld0
> > check that the partitions you created exists
> > mount /dev/ld0a /mnt
> > and report error message
> >
> > --
> > Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
> 
> We just tried it again and this time we got a different error.
> For starters here is our config:
> / 1 gig
> /swap 2 gig
> /usr 2 gig
> /var 1 gig
> /data - rest of disk  approx 108 gig  (we also tried breaking this into 2-54Gig partitions
> with the same result)
> 
> Here is the error message we got this time (though we didn't get it before)
> 
> status: failed
> /sbin/newfs /dev/rld0a
> press any key to continue
> 
> with 16065 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinders per group is 64
> This requires the block size to be changed from 8192 to 32768 and the fragment size to be
> changed from 1024 to 4090.
> 
> So... this is probably a little more meaningful.  How and where do we change this?

Oh, OK, this error again.
Please check http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2001/07/25/0008.html
I explained here how to work around this. Just change sd0 with ld0 :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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