Hi all
I wanted more though and had a newish ASUS X555L with a 1TB hard drive but on trying to install no matter whether I only use DH0 or if I use DH0 and DH1 the total hard drive space formatted is 8GB, WHY?
There is no practical point into a terabyte-sized hard drive with AROS. SFS partitions can't be bigger than 128 GB (with a safer capacity of 120 GB, as someone already suggested) so, in order to use the full size of your drive, you'd be forced to create eight 120 GB sized partitions.
But... to do what?
AROS inherits from other 32-bit operating systems the same limitations. You'd probably have issues with any file greater than 4 GB, whose content would probably be backups and ultra-definition movies AROS would have issues playing, since no hardware acceleration is provided. AROS games aren't big like current mainstream ones. So, there is really no point in giving AROS such a big disk size to play with.
Moreover, is your TB drive already partitioned, or is it clean?
If it's CLEAN (which means there are NO PARTITIONS at all) and HDToolBox can't create partitions bigger than 8 GB, that would mean AROS had issues reading your drive geometry. This would be a bigger problem than the simple limits of SFS filesystem. You'd be forced to use a smaller drive. Or an external USB drive.
In my opinion your X555L deserves a better than 'AROS-only' use. Please consider splitting your drive into two parts and destinate a bigger one to either Windows or Linux, and the second to AROS. The best would be creating a Linux-based partition (where you may decide to install hosted AROS) and an AROS native one, so you can dual-boot.
