Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:41:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT install problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522103909.20211C-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980522140943.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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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. Yes, it seems to be a sysinstall interaction. If I leave the space unallocated, and then disklabel and newfs it later, it works fine. Currently it is pretty hard to bootstrap a new DPT system. You have to be able to build a kernel somewhere else as sysinstall will install a non-DPT kernel, and you can't use sysinstall to allocate large DPT partitions. I fear for the new user. > Simon Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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