Subject: Re: Huge (> 1TB) disk
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: None <yutaka@mailhost.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/14/2002 06:33:39
Thanks for your mail, Manuel.

I have not found the way to 'install by hand' but if it's a bug in the
installer, i am afraid the bug comes from disklabel commmand.

When I tried to install yesterday, i plugged a small SCSI disk to the
box and installed the system to the small disk. Then i tried to make
disklabel to the huge one and the 'total sectors: ' was negative
value...

Anyhow, i will try install by hand and may back here again ;-)

At Mon, 13 May 2002 23:04:21 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --

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