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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.service.uci.edu!unogate!mvb.saic.com!news.alpha.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU!dim From: dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (D. Gerasimatos) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Help installing NetBSD 1.0 Date: 16 Sep 1994 09:27:22 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 24 Message-ID: <35bodq$kip@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu Well, my first question is very basic. My SCSI disk does not have cylinders, and the #heads, #tracks, #sectors questions the install routine asks are kind of futile, since they are either irrelevant, or vary (64-107 sectors/track). The disk is going to be a dedicated NetBSD disk, and the only one in the system. I sort of winged the specs, as well as the size of the root and swap partitions (16000, 32000 sectors). Is there a better way to do this? I keep getting odd disk errors (cylinder not found) once I am running the kernel. The other is maybe even more simple. I have the FAQs and then some, but I don't really have a good reference for the OS. Can someone recommend a text or a FAQ I might want to read? Except for the disk errors, the kernel is doing fine, but I cannot seem to find/run any configure scripts, and so I cannot yet use slattach and tip to download all the snapshot binaries. What's the next step? Thanks for any advice! Dimitrios