From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 25 14:28:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA05161 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:28:18 -0800 Received: from POSC.org (posc.org [192.246.215.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA05153; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:28:10 -0800 Received: from posc.posc.org (posc.posc.org [192.246.215.30]) by POSC.org (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA09703; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:28:05 -0600 Received: from sys14.posc.org (sys14.posc.org [192.246.215.69]) by posc.posc.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA03120; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:28:04 -0600 Received: by sys14.posc.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00916; Wed, 25 Jan 95 16:28:02 CST Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:28:01 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Waddell X-Sender: waddell@sys14 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: waddell@POSC.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More on stand/newfs failure In-Reply-To: <1013.791072205@time.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What do they use at Walnut Creek? I was under the impression that they used FreeBSD for their 32GB of stuff. Is there any way to adjust the disk parameters with some other program? Or, even better, can I do the whole thing by hand i.e. the newfs'ing and installation. Finally, will the OS recognize my CDRom when it finally boots? On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > about newfs /dev/rsd1a before failing with the message: > > > > Exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code = 5888. > > < OK > > > I think I know the problem. You have a large disk here, but are using > a very aggressive translation scheme (4MB cylinders would be my > guess). FreeBSD just plain doesn't deal with this properly, and if > you flipped over to the second screen (ALT-F2) you'd probably see > newfs complaining bitterly about how it wants the fragment/block sizes > to be considerably larger. > > We didn't take this into account with the 2.0 installation and didn't > give the user (shame on us) a chance to enter parameters for newfs, or > at the very least pick more intelligent values. Sigh. Let me talk to > Poul-Henning and see if we can't generate you a custom set of boot > floppies that don't have this problem! > > Thanks! > > Jordan > ========================================================================== | Dave Waddell | Disclaimer - I don't even speak for myself | | waddell@posc.org | | | kb5wxe@kb5wxe.ampr.org | + 1 713 267 5103 | ==========================================================================