From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 21:28:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA00125 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA00118 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA16626; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:28:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Joris Verboomen cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Failing to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 In-Reply-To: <34114782.C764D972@glo.be> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Joris Verboomen wrote: > 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 ? OKay, at this point use DOS FDISK and delete the second Primary DOS partition. I assume one partition has all your stuff on it and the other is completely blank (that's how it's supposed to be at least :-) ). Now go ahead and install FreeBSD. In the FDISK Editor, you'll see some space that is marked `unused' and is fairly large. Select this partition and hit `C' and create a FreeBSD slice that size. Answer `yes' to the question to make it in compatibility mode, then Quit FDISK. In the Disklabel editor, hit `A' to take the calculated defaults, then Quit. >From there it should be fairly straightforward. 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