problem installing 5.3 with large drives

[Jef Dodson]

Which problem did you have?  Did you get an error stating that the disk could not be written to or
did the filesystem get written but then the installation stalled?  Thanks.

Jef

--- Stacy Tucker <bubalator at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
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