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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:51:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        wils743@banet.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810121250560.25080-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <361F76A7.75C3@banet.net>

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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 wils743@banet.net wrote:

> I went through the installation process and got to the point where it
> asks about creating space on disk. Now I am getting confused.
> In the begining I had one single C drive (3.1G). I bought a software
> package called Partition It. I used this to partition my hard disk. When
> I got finished I had created a logical drive D(1201MB) where I intended
> to install FreeBSD.

If it has a DOS name, you're going the wrong way.

FreeBSD requires it's own slice type.  Trash the logical disk and
related extended partition, then run the FreeBSD installer.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org


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