From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 24 09:25:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA02615 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:25:06 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA02609 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:25:04 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA14860; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:24:57 -0800 To: Dave Waddell cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 2.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jan 95 09:57:27 CST." Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:24:57 -0800 Message-ID: <14859.790968297@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > To add some more info, the DEC drive partition was /dev/sdb2 and it has > the following geometry: > disk_type = "DEC DSP5400S" \ > : ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 9 \ > : rpm = 5400 : bpt = 40000 \ > : nsect = 96 : ncyl = 3128 : pcyl = 3055 : nhead = 26 \ > : acyl = 2 : atrks = 0 : trks_zone = 26 : asect = 26 > from my Sun's format.dat. Hmmm. So much for that theory - I know that newfs bombs out when you have a very large disk that requires cylinders to be >2GB in size. Hmmmmm. I think we're going to have to take this to voice. I'll call the number you list in your .sig. Jordan