Re: sysinst partitioner issue

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 10:28:33AM +0000, Graham Stephens wrote:
> lists c.2015 saying this was due to too large a root partition. I
> notice in the up-to-date install instructions it mentions this for
> Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 machines being limited to 4GB. Perhaps this needs
> updating for the 280R as well?

Sounds likely. The problem is we just don't know which OF versions have
these bugs.

> I went through the install procedure again, in order to resize the
> partitions/filesystems, but there was some weirdness going on. Setting
> the size of / to (say) 4096MB, then going to change the size of /usr
> resulted in the size of / being altered to something else.
> Further attempts to change sizes caused other oddities, like it
> reporting no free space when there was in fact plenty.

First thing to try is to use the latest netbsd-9 installer from
the daily builds, https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/latest/
and see if that works better.

If it doesn't, I can try to reproduce and fix it, but I need a lot more
details. Please contact me off list if you are able to re-test and provide
them (screenshots, or photos from the steps, plus exact details what you
entered).

Martin