Re: OpenBSD 4.4-release installation hangs on large disk (x86)

2008-12-01 Thread Chris
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Richard Toohey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a couple of Dell SC440s with the same sort of set-up, and no problems here. Two 500Gb drives, wd0 and wd1: I have resolved this issue. I tried the installation again and this time selected fdisk before selecting

Re: OpenBSD 4.4-release installation hangs on large disk (x86)

2008-11-30 Thread Chris
2) in an earlier message you indicated that there was some kind of RAID on this system, I think it is safe to say that it is a BIOS-assisted software RAID, which COULD be causing you problems if it is still configured in the BIOS. And even if it isn't causing this problem, it WILL bite you

Re: OpenBSD 4.4-release installation hangs on large disk (x86)

2008-11-30 Thread Dieter
Just because you have a cheap 500G disk doesn't mean you need to allocate all or most of it. For one, the bigger the disk, the longer it takes to fsck after you trip over the power cord. Wait for fsck? So OpenBSD doesn't have background fsck? :-(

Re: OpenBSD 4.4-release installation hangs on large disk (x86)

2008-11-30 Thread Richard Toohey
On 1/12/2008, at 9:24 AM, Chris wrote: 2) in an earlier message you indicated that there was some kind of RAID on this system, I think it is safe to say that it is a BIOS- assisted software RAID, which COULD be causing you problems if it is still configured in the BIOS. And even if it isn't

Re: OpenBSD 4.4-release installation hangs on large disk (x86)

2008-11-29 Thread Nick Holland
Chris wrote: I'm trying to install OBSD 4.4-release on this desktop which has two hard disks of around 465 GB each. If I install on wd0 with only one partition (/) of 10GB, the installation goes smoothly. But if I try to allocate /tmp (20g), /home (100g), / (50g), /var (50g), /usr (50g), swap