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 sele

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 c

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 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 y

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), >

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

2008-11-29 Thread Chris
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 (3g), the installa