Everything went fine until I started partitioning the disk. It's a 4.3G COMPAQ ST34371W (Seagate). Previously it was partitioned like that (only sizes and names from /proc/partitions copied by hand from the screen):
4193000 sda 1855440 sda1 1855440 sda2 4190400 sda3
I don't know what disklabel it used, dmesg didn't tell anything about disklabel type.
I chose to erase entire disk, then /proc/partitions showed this suspicios table:
4193000 sda 2147483647 sda3
And then I chose to use single partition and got error message telling
Failed to partition the selected disk
This probably happened because there are too many (primary) partitions in the partition table.
I tried with 2.4.24-based netboot installer from the same directory, clearing the partition table with dd before. Still the same - it created 2T sda3 and then failed. So it seems to be not kernel-specific but rather parted.
Looks like it failed in creating the whole disk partition and/or quessing wrong the disk size.
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