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From: sunman@cad.gatech.edu (Sunil A. Bhagia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Problem installing
Date: 13 Jul 1993 10:06:26 -0400
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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Keywords: install harddisk bsd

I went to install NetBSD last night and the boot floopy (kernel)
worked just fine.  It asked me to insert a disk to be mounted
as root and I inscerted the install disk 1.  Well that worked
ok but i ran in to a problem thorught the install program.  It
asked me about the hard disk and i gave it the specs for the 
hard disk and well it could not write a lable to the harddisk
so it tried to install the os onto the floppie.  Needless to 
say that it ran out of space.

What would cause this to happen (installing to disk instead of
hard disk)?   Also has any one installed NetBSD or the like 
on a Maxtor 7120 (it is an ide drive with 124 or 130 meg)?

Please help !!!!!


thanks

Sunili