sysinst partitioner issue
Graham Stephens <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Dec 2022 10:28:33 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64 |
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Hi, There seems to be a problem with the partitioner in sysinst when trying to install 9.3 (and/or CURRENT) on a 280R, OBP 4.16.4 on a 300GB HDD. I initially ran sysinst with the default settings (i.e. deleting all partitions and letting NetBSD re-create them), and at reboot I got an 'Inode not directory' message. I found a previous item in the mailing lists c.2015 saying this was due to too large a root partition. I notice in the up-to-date install instructions it mentions this for Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 machines being limited to 4GB. Perhaps this needs updating for the 280R as well? I went through the install procedure again, in order to resize the partitions/filesystems, but there was some weirdness going on. Setting the size of / to (say) 4096MB, then going to change the size of /usr resulted in the size of / being altered to something else. Further attempts to change sizes caused other oddities, like it reporting no free space when there was in fact plenty. Thanks, Graham.