On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:59:13AM -0400, jjohns wrote:
> Hi:
> This is the one Andrew told us to use, because we are using an Adaptec 2400A PCI IDE
> RAID.
>     ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20010526-1.5V/

ha yes. Well, then maybe there is a bug in sysinst here.
In this case I guess there is only 2 solutions:
1) change fsize to 8K and bsize to 32K (sysinst should allow you to do this
   when you define partitions). It may not be a good idea if you plan to
   use a partition with a lot of small files.
2) Do an install by hand. first use sysinst utility menu to configure network.
  Then exit, use disklabel -i ld0 to define partitions and change geometry.
  (you may want to use sysinst to define partitions and then exit, and
  just use disklabel -i to change geometry). newfs all partitions and
  mount them on /mnt (first mount root, then create /mnt/usr, etc ...
  and mount others partitions). then:
  cd /mnt
  ftp -o - ftp://you_server/path_to_sets/base.tgz |tar xzpf -
  repeat for all sets you want to install (don't forget etc and kern!)
  cd /mnt/dev
  sh MAKEDEV all
  cd /mnt/etc
  echo "rc_configured= YES" >> rc.conf
  cd /usr/mdec
  ./installboot -v biosboot.sym /dev/rld0a

  I think that's all. Now it should boot from disk.

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