In retrospect I realize I probably should have combined these responses
into one but oh well.

To answere your part Colin:
Mkfs had no trouble at all and the thing about 1 gig might be close (I was
using about 970 MB for root & usr) but it worked just fine with that size
after I rearranged the order.

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> Christopher R. Bowman wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, tcjam wrote:
> > 
> > I didn't think this was the off by one partition problems as I thought
> > that had been fixed in the installer that I was using which was
> > pretty recent.
> > 
> > > Seconded!  I recently reformated my 2gig quantum with three HFS
> > > partitions, NetBSD root&usr/NetBSD swap and had the installer crap out in
> > > the same way. I managed to get past it by rearranging the partition map I
> > > think but I'd like to see this resolved.
> 
> Hmmmm...I thought that the off-by-1 error only pertained to Mkfs.  Rather,
> the Installer only sees what's written in the Partition Map.  So, the
> Installer might miss the last partition on the disk if there was an error
> in the Partition Map (and I believe it _should_ miss the last partition,
> else there's a bug in the Installer), but the Installer shouldn't crash or
> "crap out" because of this.  The errors that people have been seeing on
> these 2GB drives seems to be a bit different.  At the moment, the only
> thing that I can see might be having a single root&usr partition larger
> than 1G in size...perhaps there is some artificial limit on partition size
> in the Installer?  I know that the problems with disk size were fixed in
> 1.1e, but obviously there must be some other kind of difficulty
> here...either that or a 2GB drive is just a strange beast.  I've certainly
> never seen these kinds of difficulties on my 3 GB Quantum drive (of course
> I only use 1 250MB partition on it, too).
> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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> I speak only on my own behalf, not for my employer.
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