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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!jfh From: jfh@cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: floppy disklabel problems Date: 13 Oct 1995 17:09:24 GMT Organization: University of Florida, Computer Science Department Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <45m6g4$jia@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> References: <45lu09$buo@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aviator.cis.ufl.edu Keywords: floppy disklabel bootable Originator: jfh@aviator.cis.ufl.edu In article <45lu09$buo@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>, jfh@cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes: > sectors/cylinder: 36 > Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) > Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group to 5. > Warning: 1216 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated Ok...got it to work -- I used the -u option with newfs and gave it 36, and it was happy. Now, does anyone know what the best way to go about getting a nifty boot disk happening with a compressed kernel and all like the install disk? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jim Hranicky, Systems Administrator | | Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering Department, Univ of Florida | | E314E CSE Building jfh@cis.ufl.edu Phone (904) 392-1057 | | http://www.cis.ufl.edu/~jfh | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------