Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:25:33PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger:
> 
> The 1.6 INSTALL.txt says:
> 
>      Most sparc systems have trouble booting if the root partition extends be-
>      yond the first 2 GB of your disk.
> 
> Is this true on my Sparcstation 5? I was thinking of making my whole
> 9G drive one big partition, but...

i have a 9g ibm drive on my ss5 (netbsd ~1.5) with ~8g of that being /,
it booted just fine.  i dont have the ss5 any more.