[Sunhelp] Sol7 install problems on LX

[Dimitris S. Tsifakis]

James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Gilles Melanson wrote:
> 
> > There is only one scsi disk in the box.  c0t0d0s0 is the / partition, s1
> > is the swap.  I didn't even break out the different portions.  I'm trying
> > to boot off of disk0:a to no avail.
> 
> This is why.  Older Suns (pre-Ultra) can't reliably boot off of a
> partition larger than 2GB.  Really old PROMs have a limit of 1GB.
> 
> If you have a large disk, try carving it up into seperate partitions.

I have an SS20 with an internal 9 gigs disk partitioned like this:

Filesystem        kbytes   used     avail     capacity   Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 8595837  6032547  2477332   71%        /
swap              78452    18100    60352     24%        /tmp

and it works great so far, even though i remember i had some problems
during the installation of 2.6. My OpenBoot version is 2.25 and the
system is working great right now..

Dimitris

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