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From: Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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Subject: RE: DPT install problem
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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:

> 
> On 21-May-98 Tom wrote:
> > 
> >   I'm trying to use the boot-dpt 2.2.6-RELEASE floppy to bootstrap a new
> > DPT based system.  However, sysinstall hangs after newfs'ing the
> > filesystems.
> > 
> >   I'm using a 21GB array, with auto-defaults for the filesystems, so /usr
> > is over 20GB in size.  If I delete /usr and replace it with a 500MB
> > filesystem, leaving the remaining space unallocated, sysinstall has no
> > problem completing the newfs step.
> > 
> >   Anyone else had problems with sysinstall on a mid-sized array like
> > this?
> 
> Yup.  Me :-)
> But not on 3.0-current.  I noticed that 2.2 does not like huge partitions,
> but this is not consnstent.

  Yes, it seems to be a sysinstall interaction.  If I leave the space
unallocated, and then disklabel and newfs it later, it works fine.

  Currently it is pretty hard to bootstrap a new DPT system.  You have to
be able to build a kernel somewhere else as sysinstall will install a
non-DPT kernel, and you can't use sysinstall to allocate large DPT
partitions.  I fear for the new user.

> Simon

Tom


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