On Feb 7, David Guynn wrote
> Hello again,
> 
> I just used the wonderful FIPS utility to split my 13.6 gig drive into two
> nice partitions:
> 
> Win/DOS  9868 MB
> Empty        3082 MB
> 
> which adds up to be 12951 mb (okay, so the box lied) When I run sysinst, on
> the partition
> screen, it shows the screen, but for the partitions it shows are:
> 
> Partition    Start      End        Size
>     0               0        9869       9869      Unknown
> 
> THis is all well and fine, so I make a NetBSD partition, starts at 9870,
> size, 3080. It sets the partition type, but not my sizes. PLEASE HELP!!!
> 

Sysinst doesn't handle well >8Gb disks yet. You'll have to do this by hand
using fdisk (I'm not sure this one handle >8Gb disks well either).
Maybe sysinst will work properly after that ...

And you'll have to install the new, -current boot blocks, which use the
int13 extention. The "tradidtional" BIOS call can't address over the 8Gb limit.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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