From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 09:11:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21282 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fw.oppenheimerfunds.com (fw.oppenheimerfunds.com [208.203.94.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21275 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:11:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ELBARKER@Oppenheimerfunds.com) Received: from fw.oppenheimerfunds.com (root@localhost) by fw.oppenheimerfunds.com with ESMTP id KAA22171 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:11:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from Oppenheimerfunds.com (mailgw.oppenheimerfunds.com [172.16.10.4]) by fw.oppenheimerfunds.com with SMTP id KAA22130 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:11:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from OPP#u#DEN-Message_Server by Oppenheimerfunds.com with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 08 Jan 1999 10:11:03 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 10:10:41 -0700 From: "Betsy Barker" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation slicing problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA21278 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tying to install FreeBSD on a PC at home and am having the following problem. I was wondering if you could help me out. I have a "real" partition of about 1535 M set up on my 3.6Gig Harddrive as freebsd. It is behind my DOS partition, starting at say block # 3153024. It is formated as a type 165 ,called freebsd in Partition Magic. My problem is this: During the FreeBSD installation process I need to create the "slices" for the file systems and swap space. Using their window (label maker or something like that), I have the ability to say 20M, FileSystem, and "/" as a mount point. I'm using "/", "/usr", "/var" as mount points. At that point, I get the error "FreeBSD is unable to deal with this location or the partition is too big". Doesn't matter what size I use. I get "too big" for everything, including the swap space, which I'm trying to size as 130M (2xRAM amount). I followed the instructions to try and make / 20M, and to create a /var, etc,etc, but all the file systems receive the same error messages. Do you know what to do? Thanks in advance, Betsy Barker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message