From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 10:17:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C54A16A4D9 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:17:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058F943D1D for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:17:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:2616 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1ArhsY-0005Wq-5t; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:17:30 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id <15HGD289>; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:09:31 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-107.acuson.com ([157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id 15H1SJMR; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:08:21 -0800 From: Johnson David To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:15:19 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040213045217.7a0f09c2.hanxue@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <20040213045217.7a0f09c2.hanxue@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402131015.19999.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1ArhsY-0005Wq-5t*z5APlsuze2I* cc: Lee Hanxue Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD after Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:17:52 -0000 On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:52 pm, Lee Hanxue wrote: > I have 1 primary partition, containing 4 extended partitions. > Mandrake Linux 9.2 is installed over there. Using fdisk in FreeBSD > installer, I created another primary partition and tried installing > FreeBSD 5.2.1 there. > > Unfortunately, the installation process got hung while the installer > was "Creating a root filesystem on ad10s3". I waited for more than 3 > hours. I selected none when I was prompted to install a boot manager, > since I wanted to boot using Grub which is already there when I > install Linux. I don't know what you did wrong, but please redirect your question to the -questions list. Also include some more information on your harddrive partitioning. "ad10s3" seems extremely unusual. In FreeBSD parlance, it means the third primary partition on the *tenth* ATA drive. If you mistyped, and meant "ad1s3", make sure this is the third partition BEFORE any extended partitions (which should always be the last). David