Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:55:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT install problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522155401.21115A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522144226.16082C-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>
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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Charles Owens wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > > > On 21-May-98 Tom wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to use the boot-dpt 2.2.6-RELEASE floppy to bootstrap a new > > > DPT based system. However, sysinstall hangs after newfs'ing the > > > filesystems. > > > > > > I'm using a 21GB array, with auto-defaults for the filesystems, so /usr > > > is over 20GB in size. If I delete /usr and replace it with a 500MB > > > filesystem, leaving the remaining space unallocated, sysinstall has no > > > problem completing the newfs step. > > > > > > Anyone else had problems with sysinstall on a mid-sized array like > > > this? > > > > Yup. Me :-) > > But not on 3.0-current. I noticed that 2.2 does not like huge partitions, > > but this is not consnstent. > > > > Simon > > This has me a bit nervous. This July I will be implementing an NFS server > with a 60GB DTP-based array. My plan has been to use 2.2-stable... but > perhaps 3.0-current is my only choice? Is this -stable problem > understood, with a fix coming any time soon? It is a sysinstall problem. When bootstrapinng 2.2 onto your system, leave most of the array unallocated, and disklabel and newfs it later. > Any other concerns that I should be sweating about as I'm planning on > building an array of this size? (and it will probably double in size the > following summer) Use good enclosures. > Thanks, Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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