Subject: Re: Problem with 1.3/sparc install
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Rob Deker <deker@digex.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/15/1998 20:01:28
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, David Brownlee wrote:
> (Have cc'ed to port-sparc as well)
>
> NetBSD writes a SunOS compatible label onto the disk for the boot
> prom. Unfortunately SunOS can only allocate paritions in units
> of cylinders (no partiail cylinders), so NetBSD/sparc also has to
> starts and end partitions on cylinder boundaries.
>
> The error messge should probably be more helpful - could you
> submit a PR to not this :)
>
I suppose I could, but it would be not very much more than "please do
something for us idiots out here"
:)
rob
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