Re: sysinst questions

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:10:02AM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Using NetBSD 4_RC4 for i386.
> 
> 1) On the screen to set up disklabels, what does this (57) mean?
> 
>  MB	  	 Cylinders
> 160	(57)	 3414

That should be the size when the free space is added to the partition.
In this case the free space seems to be negative.

> 2) Why does it have /usr, /var, /home as 0 MB, 0 cyl, and 0 sectors. Its 
> note above on display says usually use whole disk for / but why even show 
> them? It is confusing to me as it seems like something configured them 
> wrong?

Because you always get a chance to to see what sysinst is going to do,
and to make changes yourself.

> 3) Also my swap was 0 MB. I don't know why. I may have misunderstood a 
> previous step. But I thought that should have been configured for me also.

It would, but the disk seems to be smaller than the minimum size for
the root filesystem.

> 4) How to exit from that disklabel screen?

The bottom row of the menu - but that will say:
    'Reduce partition sizes by xxx MB (xxx sectors).'

> I saw no choice that says exit or done.

You need to fix the partition sizes to fit the disk!

Possibly you are trying to install into a very small mbr partition.
OTOH the reported number of cylinders looks large for 57MB,
so I suspect something else odd has happened.

Possibly the disk size has not been determined properly.
The output from 'sysctl machdep.diskinfo' will give the disk size
info from the bios.

	David

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