Re: re-transmission: Re: Prepping to install

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 06/26/15 07:46, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <558C588F.7030406%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
> William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
> > On 06/25/15 12:30, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > > In article <558C26D3.70607%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
> > > William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
> > > > Everything looked OK w/ df & install proceeded & finished OK. Whassup
> > > > here ? TIA for any pointers & have a good one.
> > > Are you sure your root is ffsv2 and not ffsv1? Why is the a partition
> > > offset 2048?
> > >
> > > christos
> >
> > Not sure about either. Disklabel thinks the slice is RAID under the
> > RAID[0,1], & 4.2BSD on top off the RAID 'device'. I am definitely *not*
> > expert at the ins & outs of NetBSD disk setup, booting, etc. I mostly
> > followed the (previously attached) README file to set everything up, &
> > that's what was recommended there (*not* an ideal circumstance, I know,
> > but the best I could do). I thought ffsv2 had superceded v1 a while
> > back, but I could be mistaken. I also thought 4.2BSD was synonomous w/
> > FFSv2, no ? What should the root filesystem be for the boot process to
> > work correctly ? Also, what should the offset of the root partition be ?
> > I took defaults when I fdisk'ed the drive (fdisk -iau0 wd[0,1]), as
> > instructed in the afore-mentioned README file. Thanks for your reply &
> > TIA for any new guidance & have a good one.
> You need to tell newfs to generate ffsv2, by default it creates ffsv1.
> Why don't you install the ffsv1 boot blocks and see if that works.
>
> christos

Thanks for your reply. I might have a bit of trouble installing those 
boot blocks since I can't get the install USB drive to boot. I might 
have to go back & do over after formatting the 1st GB or 2 of the 
offending HDD's, which is what I did before. I used the following newfs 
commands to create my filesystems on the various RAID-ed devices:


# newfs -O2 -b32k raid[0,1]a            # root & /usr RAID's ....
# newfs -O2 -b64k -I dk0                # /home device ....

which I think does FFSv2. Thanks again & TIA for any more ideas :-). 
Have a good one.


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