Re: trouble installing to 1.5TB drive

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:30:58AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Tim Howe wrote:
> >On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:16:28 +0100
> >Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:13:28PM -0800, Tim Howe wrote:
> >>>It appears to be seen this way, as the install program says it is
> >>
> >>[snip] What version are you trying to install? This is supposed to be
> >>fixed in current and I think on netbsd-5. It should exist as bug for
> >>netbsd-5-0 though.
> >
> >     I downloaded the snap from
> >ftp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5-0/200912160000Z
> >
> >     Perhaps this is not what is considered -current?  I may be in
> >error by assuming that recent snapshots are considered -current.
> 
> The clue there is the "netbsd-5-0" stanza. As Joerg says this is a known 
> issue in the netbsd-5-0 branch (i.e. NetBSD 5.0, NetBSD 5.0.1 and the 
> upcoming NetBSD 5.0.2). If you look for the netbsd-5 branch (i.e. what 
> will become NetBSD 5.1 soon) you will find it works fine (I can confirm it 
> works on 2TB drives).

Sorry, but that is not true for fdisk.
I still need to confirm that the patch compiles on netbsd-5 before the pullup
for port-i386/42483 can be done.

Bernd