I am attempting to install NetBSD (1.5.2) onto a laptop with WindowsXP. I
shuffled the partitions so that it looks like this...
   
   Start(sec) Size(sec)  End(sec)  Kind
   ---------- ---------- --------- ----
0: 63         12289662   12289725  Windows FAT32
1: 67906755   10233405   78140160  Extended Partition, LBA
2:                                 unused
3:                                 unused

I would like to install NetBSD in the space between sectors 12289725 and
67906755. I add a NetBSD partition to partition 2 and when I go to put in
the size (55617030), the installer changes the size to 4224339, which is
about 2GB.

   Start(sec) Size(sec)  End(sec)  Kind
   ---------- ---------- --------- ----
0: 63         12289662   12289725  Windows FAT32
1: 67906755   10233405   78140160  Extended Partition, LBA
2: 12289725    4224339   16514064  unused
3:                                 unused

Is this a limit for this file system? All the examples I have found on the
web use smaller size partitions. Is there a way around this?

Thanks in advance.


Brian Rose 
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