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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.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!cats.ucsc.edu!haynes From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (James H. Haynes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Trouble installing Date: 1 Feb 1996 01:32:31 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4ep57f$n1s@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu I'm trying to install 1.1 on a 386 having a Seagate ST-1144 IDE disk. I go through all the steps, putting in the geometry 1001 cylinders, 15 heads, 17 sectors/track (which is what was reported at bootup time). Then I tell it to use all 1001 cylinders for NetBSD, and I tell it to use 860 or so cylinders for the root and the rest for swap. When I tell it go go ahead and do it, it gets a write error for track 14, sector 16, cylinder 859 - the very last sector on the partition. What's wrong?