Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 14:07:30 +0200 From: Joris Verboomen <joris.verboomen@glo.be> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Failing to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <34114782.C764D972@glo.be> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905220815.7395T-100000@localhost>
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Thanks for your help, Doug. I have used FIPS to split up my existing DOS Primary Partition. This gives me a 2 DOS Primary Partitions (2nd one being a clone of the first one). I then deleted the 2nd DOS Primary Partition (as said in the doc). If you look at this again with FIPS it says that there is freespace not covered by any partition. In any case the installation procedure does not allow you to use this freespace, neither does it allow you to use the 2nd DOS Primary Partition. Basically, my question is the following. When I am in the situation that I have 2 DOS Primary Partitions as above, what more steps do I have to perform to use this second partition and install FreeBSD on it ? Thanks for all help. Joris. Doug White wrote: > 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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