Install ESOS to Internal Drive 4TB

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Liam Hughes

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Nov 23, 2021, 8:34:45 AM11/23/21
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Hi All, 

Looking for some assistance please installing ESOS to an internal RAID volume, which is 4TB in size.

The error message I keep getting is the below : 

*** Enterprise Storage OS master_50546e9_dgvszq Install Script ***

### Checking for required tools...

### Verifying checksums...
esos-master_50546e9_dgvszq.img.tar.bz2: OK
esos-master_50546e9_dgvszq.img.tar.bz2: OK

### Here is a list of disk devices on this machine:
NAME       VENDOR   MODEL            REV  SIZE TRAN SUBSYSTEMS
/dev/loop0                                1.8G      block
/dev/sda   DELL     PERC_6_i        1.22  3.7T      block:scsi:pci
/dev/sdb   JetFlash Transcend_8GB   8.07  7.3G usb  block:scsi:usb:pci
/dev/sdc   ADATA    USB_Flash_Drive 0.00  7.2G usb  block:scsi:usb:pci

### Please type the full path of your destination device node (eg, /dev/sdz):
/dev/sda

### Proceeding will completely wipe the '/dev/sda' device. Are you sure (yes/no)?
yes

### Writing 'esos-master_50546e9_dgvszq.img.tar.bz2' to '/dev/sda'; this may take a while...
0+163384 records in
0+163384 records out
8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 166.351 s, 51.6 MB/s

### It appears the image was successfully written to disk (no errors reported)!

### Large installation target detected; adding the 'esos_data' file system...
/dev/sda4: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000438 (ext4): 53 ef
Error: partition length of 7797209088 sectors exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295


Any assistance on how to complete this installation would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards, 

Liam

Marc Smith

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Nov 23, 2021, 9:07:13 AM11/23/21
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Ouch, okay, need to think about this one a bit more... message is
because drive is too big for MBR, needs GPT. Work-around could be to
comment out the "Large installation target" section in install.sh
script and re-run. Or if you can make the PERC VD smaller (maybe a TiB
or two) that should work as well.

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Liam Hughes

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Nov 24, 2021, 1:40:30 AM11/24/21
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Thanks Marc, 

I shall give that a go - and failing that will find a smaller drive to use - probably easier in the long run.

Although always enjoy the challenge.

Cheers, 

Liam

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