Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:08:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Joris Verboomen <joris.verboomen@glo.be> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Failing to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905220815.7395T-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <34107306.64B45A58@glo.be>
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Just questions@freebsd.org is sufficient, thanks. On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Joris Verboomen wrote: > I have a primary DOS partition of 2 GB and an extended one of 4 GB. I > re-partitioned my primary one (using defrag and fips) to keep a primary > one of 1.5 GB (and deleted the second primary one of 500 MB as told in > the FAQ). I then created a new boot floppy but just as before the > re-partitioning the unused space the install program finds is not enough > to install FreeBSD. It keeps on finding that 196192 out of the 196608 > sectors are dedicated to FAT and does not seem to find the unused 500MB. You need to use FIPS or Partition Magic to split out that unusued FAT space into unallocated partition space. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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