Install onto 6Tb array

LI Xin delphij at delphij.net
Wed Oct 25 09:56:32 UTC 2006


Lawrence Farr wrote:
> I'd like to install stable directly onto a 6Tb Areca array, and
> have run out of clues how to do it. In the past I've always
> used a separate boot volume that was small enough for sysinstall
> to work with, but I have no space to fit more drives in this
> chassis. I've tried putting a small partition on the start,
> which boots fine, but screws up the disk sizing as the geometry
> is wrong I guess? tried diskprep, but that gets the gemometry
> wrong as well. Is the only option to use gpt and restore to
> it from another boot device and hope that the bios can boot it? 

I am afraid so...  6TB is way too large for MBR to manage (which can
support 4TB at maximum).

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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