From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 22 10:08:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26834 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 10:08:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero.simon-shapiro.org.142.69.207.in-addr.arpa [207.69.142.25] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26797 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 10:08:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@sendero.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 28248 invoked by uid 1000); 22 May 1998 18:09:43 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:09:43 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Tom Subject: RE: DPT install problem Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message