Re: [TUHS] Re: non-broken 4.3BSD set?

That is what I do. After several failures, I find that using first NetBSD-1.4.1 boot to both label and install boot blocks, followed by second, NetBSD-1.2 boot and edlabel to trim the labels back to something akin to a Tahoe style label, seems to be the only way that works reliably. The label 1.4.1 writes is different from the Tahoe label, in that it computes incorrect c partition sizes. It does write something that I think is bootblock related that seems to must be there for Quasijarus to boot on my hardware. I am not sure exactly what it is, but using just the 1.2 edlabel does not seem to work reliably. The 1.2 edlabel seems to write a correct c size partition, though, after the 1.4.1 bits are put on. I ought to dd off the binary bits and see what is actually being written. But, the above seems to work, for me, and got my crashed disks back up a few minutes ago, after hours of prom formatting....(:+{{..... Anyway, that is how I get the machine up. If there is a better or easier way, someone holler. I am wondering if a dd image of a working few start blocks on a disk could be copied over to a raw formatted disk from the tape copy, before the miniroot went on, as part of the boot/install process? An undersized disk label with reasonably sized a and b partitions and a small but installable h partition (big enough for the usr tarball to fit on) should allow a bootable system to be installed. From that it could be set up on a second disk with correctly sized labels. Or, when the tape was written, a selection of disk boot/label images could be set up and a correct one written to the boot tape for the target disk install. What other ways could this be done? Michael, what are your thoughts on setting up the disks, reasonably? Thanks Bob