problem installing 5.3 with large drives

[Stacy Tucker]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 01:51 -0800, Jef Dodson wrote:
> Does anyone know if BSD has a problem with largish hard drives.  I have tried installing FreeBSD
> 5.3 using a WD 250 GB drive and a Maxtor 200 GB drive and both have failed.  However, I am able to
> complete the installation on the same system using a Maxtor 10 GB drive.  The WD drive fails to
> write during the commit phase of the installation and the 200 GB Maxtor writes the filesystem OK
> but then hangs at 9% while copying the base dist.  Thanks very much.
> 
> Jef 
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Stacy Tucker <bubalator at yahoo.com>
I ran into the same problem. The method I used was to do a minimum
install, reboot, enter back into the setup, (but use the configure
option) and install any other applications/make configuration changes as
needed. Hope that helps.
ST