>Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. <drk@shore.net> wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to put NetBSD 1.3 onto a 1 Gig Quantum drive. At a random point
>>during the install, I get:
>>
>>Error on SCSIRead(), #5
>>Error on SCSIRead(), #5
>>Error on SCSIRead(), #5
>>Error on SCSIRead(), #5
>>Error on SCSIRead(), #5
>>Error on SCSIRead(), #5
>>pos=0, i=27, fs=/
>>alloccblk: can't find blk in cyl
>>
>>It isn't a bad disk - I tested the disk intensively with every test I own.
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>I have tried this with a Q950, a IIvx, and a IIx, not that it matters,
>>since I never got as far as trying to run!
>

Bob Nestor wrote:

>I've run into the same thing not to long ago.  Your problem isn't a bad
>disk, but it's touching something sensitive about the filesystem.  If you
>have NetBSD running on another disk you can do the complete installation
>from within NetBSD and avoid this problem as it seems to only come up in
>the Installer.  The other thing you might try doing is to install only a
>minimal set of things with the Installer (Kernel, Etc, Bin), boot up
>NetBSD in single-user mode and complete the installation under NetBSD.
>Third, try moving your disk partition around, resize it up or down a
>hundred blocks or so, or make multiple disk partitions so you can install
>a minimal system on one first.
>

I tried the multiple partitions, but it didn't work. The problem was that I
had too many partitions already!

Dan Killoran

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