Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 20:18:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT install problem Message-ID: <XFMail.980522201815.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522103909.20211C-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On 22-May-98 Tom wrote:
>
> 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.
[ I am dropping the cross-post to SCSI as it is not a SCSI issue ]
I agree, but I do virtually most of my new installs on 3.0 and with
filesystems of 4GB or smaller. Some 16GB filesystems seem to work fine.
It may very well be that the problem is in the fact that the swap device
may or may not be activated at the time of newfs. Does anyone know the
answer to this question?
Simon
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Sincerely Yours,
Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
770.265.7340
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