From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 07:09:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978E416A403 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 07:09:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ericdan@ucla.edu) Received: from smtp-4.smtp.ucla.edu (smtp-4.smtp.ucla.edu [169.232.46.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A7F43D46 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 07:09:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ericdan@ucla.edu) Received: from mail.ucla.edu (mail.ucla.edu [169.232.46.158]) by smtp-4.smtp.ucla.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4579BZS012792 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 00:09:11 -0700 Received: from localhost (pool-71-106-208-236.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.106.208.236]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ucla.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4579ANI030854 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 00:09:11 -0700 Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 00:09:10 -0700 From: Eric Dan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060505070910.GA5349@box.myhome.westell.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060505065259.GA5583@box.myhome.westell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060505065259.GA5583@box.myhome.westell.com> X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.16-beyond (i686) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Probable-Spam: no X-Spam-Report: none X-Scanned-By: smtp.ucla.edu on 169.232.46.138 Subject: Re: 6.1 install problems with creating partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 07:09:12 -0000 update: I actually backed up the ext3 to another hard drive and got rid of all partitions and slices on that drive. installer still can't do it. the exact error says: "unable to make new root file system on ad3sa1" then i hit return and it says: "couldn't make file system properly" any ideas? * Eric Dan (ericdan@ucla.edu) wrote: > trying to install 6.1 on my secondary master partition or slice 2. > I come from linux so please be forgiving with the naming or slices and > partitions. > i created a 40G slice on ad3 with fdisk, then with disklabel i created a > 4g / a 512M swap and the rest for /home > i used the "S" option on the "/" partition. > the installer gives me and error saying that it wasn't able to create > the partions on the slice and the install aborts. > what can i do? > i don't wanna give up that ext3 part on this drive. > > thanks > -- > Eric Dan ericdan@ucla.edu > UCLA ID#103297286 > http://www.vladuz976.com/ > GPG key: FD13E94D ( B9D1 7D8D 34E0 D0B7 D3C9 4571 0BAC 1DC7 FD13 E94D) > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Eric Dan ericdan@ucla.edu UCLA ID#103297286 http://www.vladuz976.com/ GPG key: FD13E94D ( B9D1 7D8D 34E0 D0B7 D3C9 4571 0BAC 1DC7 FD13 E94D)