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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!ra!cs.umd.edu!nocusuhs!nmrdc1!dsc3pzp From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) Subject: [NetBSD] Disk Geometry? Message-ID: <C7oMvJ.Lsn@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 11:06:54 GMT Lines: 22 I am getting ready to install NetBSD this weekend. I read INSTALL notes, and scaned FAQ, but am still unclear on disk geometry for my Quantum LPS240 SCSI drive. My sectors/track is NOT a constant. It varies from 44 sectors/track on the inner tracks to 87 sectors/track on the outer tracks. 386BSD 0.1 installed fine, and of course there was no prompt(s) regarding disk geometry at install time. With NetBSD, though, I am kind of lost. I have the Tech Ref for my drive, and it covers everything! Still, I am not sure what the NetBSD install program needs. (Does it show that I don't know "disklabel" too well?) ANY pointers indicating where I can read up on NetBSD install on SCSI, or any help at all would sure be appreciated! At this time, I do NOT have a working ***BSD system - no man pages are available. -- ============================================================================== phil perucci | "Any opinions expressed are my views, dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | not the position of any organization" ==============================================================================