From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 17:57:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20913 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:57:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wuzwuz.ucg.ie (arpi@wuzwuz.ucg.ie [140.203.8.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20813 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arpi@wuzwuz.ucg.ie) Received: from localhost (arpi@localhost) by wuzwuz.ucg.ie (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA22511 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 01:23:32 +0100 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 01:23:32 +0100 (IST) From: Zoldi Arpad Reply-To: Zoldi Arpad To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD installation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I hope someone can help me. I am trying to install FreeBSD and I have some problems. I have the bootdisk, I am trying to install to a 450M partition. I don't know if it's important, the partition contains a caldera linux installation. I wanted install over ftp. I got with the installation to the fdisk stage. I changed the partition type ("slice" as I see in freebsd) from ext2fs to freebsd. Now I have to create on this partition other partitions, root, swap and usr is recommanded. First I tried "Auto defaults for all" but it was not working, I got the "unable to create the root partition. too big?" error message. Then I tried to create manually the partitions but that was not working either. When I try to create the root partition I got an error messsage: "this region cannot be used for yout root partition as the freebsd boot code cannot deal with a root partition created in that location. .. choose another location or a smaller size..." Ok, now I tried to create the swap partion first but I got the same error: unable to create the partition, too big? So, now I don't know what to do. Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong, what could I try to do now? Thanks! Regards, Arpi Arpad Zoldi Galway, Ireland arpi@wuzwuz.ucg.ie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message