[1787] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Disk partitioning problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Sep 10 10:37:45 1998
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 02:20:52 EDT."
<199809100620.CAA02187@pintail.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:37:31 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> so, I'm not sure why, but the one I had here which had the problem
> had >8G HD, which meant that even the NFS install was unhappy until
> I went in and by hand did my own disklabel which ignored LBA.
Right, and my message explained what's going on with that disk, and
how the install can work around the relevant NetBSD bug.
> Guys:
> I have machines where AFs hangs that don't have either of those
> problems.
Is it okay if I talk about one failure case at a time? We do have
several of them. I wasn't talking about the AFS hang at all.
> (in the meanwhile, the NFS install floppy appears to work well, we
> should seriously consider doing our installs that way)
Well, it's irritating not being able to use AFS. But we could have
our NFS server do a nightly mirror of the packs or something, and it
wouldn't be so bad. Comments, Nathan?
