On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	That seems odd - I'm sure I have friends who have installed on
> 	large disks with 1.4.X. Can you try with a 1.5_ALPHA2 disk
> 	just in case.
> 
>                 David/absolute
> 			       -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --

Yes, I too have 1.4.2 on my large disk.  But as I said in my earlier mail,
I had to use the fdisk that was there in the boot disks to do that.  I
couldn't accomplish that using sysinst.

					Rakhesh
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I just realized, sysinst of NetBSD-1.4.2 can't handle large disks.  
> > 
> > I have a 17 gig hard-disk, and I was trying to install NetBSD in the last
> > 10 gigs.  sysinst wouldn't let me do it.  It would let me specify the
> > sizes and offsets, but would just display nothing after I say OK.  I had
> > to then use fdisk and manually allocate the partition.  
> > 
> > It's probably a know problem, but I'm saying just in case ...  How come
> > nothing has been done so far abt it ?
> > 
> > Rakhesh
> > 
> > 
>