Hi,

I removed the 2 GB HD and replaced it by a 973 MB HD
(only one HD is now in my system) and then
I booted from the VAX.iso image cd. Started the installation
with default paramters (partition sizes etc.) and the
installation procedure processed perfectly.

BTW I used the 2 GB HD for 1.5.2 and there was no problem at all ...

Before the replacement, I also tried to change the root partition size (2BG
HD attached) inside the installation program to 900 GB, but it didn't work
(core dump again). Probably I used wrong parameters.

Having a second HD for /usr stuff is a good idea, but currently I am
happy with one HD.

Thanx.


regards WJL

-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Woyciesjes [mailto:daw@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu]
Sent: Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2002 16:47
To: Lehle Wolf
Cc: 'Lord Isildur'; 'Jochen Kunz'; 'port-vax@netbsd.org'
Subject: RE: Install 1.6 iso on a VS3100/38


On 10/14/02, Lehle Wolf scribbled:

> Hi,
>
>
> that fixed the problem: no more core dumps. I replaced the 2 GB by a 973MB HD and now everything runs fine.
> Thanx to all.
>

	Do you mean you set a 973MB root partition, or installed a second
hard drive? If it is a second hard drive, I would install the 2GB drive
also, and use that as /usr mount point.

	A little while a go, when I had two smaller drives for one
machine, here's what I did...
	Install one hard drive in the machine, and do a minimal install.
Just system maintenance type of stuff. When it came time to create the
partitions, I took the option to specify how big I wanted the partitions.
I made /use as small as I could, leaving enough room for swap. that left /
with most of the drive.
	Once that was done, and working good, I installed the second hard
drive. I created one partition on that drive, mounted it on /mnt to check
that everything was okay, then unmounted it. I then updated /etc/fstab to
mount /usr on the second drive. If you like, you can have it also mount
the small /usr all the time, but I didn't. Keeps it safe.
	With this setup, if your /usr drive does bite the bullet, you
still have the orignal small /usr partition...

	BTW, can sysinst install onto just one partition? Or does it have
to have a separate /usr partition? I've never tried, but it would be
handy for this kind of setup here. That way, the / part uses as much of
the drive as it can...

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