Posts: 2833 from 2003/2/8
From: USA
I don't know these particular installers very well; however, the installer -> free disk space is a known problem. Well, not really a problem, but more like a problem with installer itself. I'm assuming you've donwloaded installer43.3, or used a copy included with the game. Basically, installer, like the old filesystem, doesn't recognize large harddrives. I would normally suggest to have a smaller FFS formatted partition for such a thing.
What I normally do is "fix" the installer by hand, or read the installer and copy the files by hand.