Subject: Re: Huge (> 1TB) disk
To: None <yutaka@mailhost.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/13/2002 23:04:21
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:59:49AM +0900, yutaka@mailhost.net wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to install NetBSD-1.5.2 to an i386 box.
> It has a huge 1144GB SCSI disk. Actually it is an external RAID.
> 
> I read http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems and
> learned it should be possible, if I specify the 'fragment size' to be
> 1024byte.
> 
> The problem is... when and how i could specify the 'fragment size'
> during the installation process.
> 
> The installer say that the disk size is an negative value and I
> couldn't edit disklabel.

Hum, this looks like a bug in the installer. Try to do an install by
hand (this should be documented somewhere on the web site).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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