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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!hptemp1.cc.umr.edu!news.missouri.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!gallatin From: gallatin@diego.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: PMax port. Disk config problem Date: 31 Jan 1996 00:54:52 GMT Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4emeks$bm2@news.duke.edu> References: <4eav32$4gu@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl> <4ehs9i-iqe@svstch.ubs.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: diego.isds.duke.edu In article <4ehs9i-iqe@svstch.ubs.ch>, Andreas Meister <zhmte@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch> wrote: >Erwin van Eijk (eijk@pegasus.esprit.ec.org) wrote: >: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] >: a: 49104 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 87) .. >: Then we dd'd the miniboot to /dev/rrz2c, and it complained about not being >: able to find netbsd when we tried to boot it. It gave an error 21, whatever >: that may be. You need to write the label so that a starts 16 in from the start of the disk. The label from an rz56 on my 5000/200 looks like this: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 65520 16 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0*- 80*) b: 131072 65536 swap # (Cyl. 80*- 242*) c: 1299174 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - 1603*) You really, really, really should subscribe to the port-pmax mailing list if you need help installing/running NetBSD on your DECstation. Send mail to majordomo@netbsd.org with the word 'help' as the body of the message for instructions on how to join. Or point your WWW browser at http://www.netbsd.org/MailingLists and click the subscribe icon next to port-pmax. ############################################################################## # Andrew Gallatin, Computer Project Manager # # Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences # # Box 90251, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0251 # ##############################################################################