From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 9:13:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D7014DDB for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id RAA17418; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:08:25 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id SAA26520; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:12:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA24968; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:30:15 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id RAA07785; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:42:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37E8F860.8A1725FE@alcatel.fr> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:40:16 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Uhl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing 3.3 References: <199909221511.LAA09037@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, FreeBSD cannot use (yet ?) an extended partition for an UFS filesystem (it will however see FAT or ext2fs partitions in an extended partition) => all of FreeBSD must be installed in a "primary" partition (primary in the sense "primary DOS" partition, one of the four entries of the partition table which is stored in the MBR) TfH George Uhl wrote: > > I'm installing FreeBSD 3.3 fresh on a PC with NT > and Linux already installed. I repartition the > disk (preserving the NT & Linux paritions). The > repartioned table is as follows: > > Offset Size End Name Desc Subtype Flg > ------ ---- --- ---- ---- ------- --- > 0 63 62 - unused 0 = > 63 4112577 4112639 wd0s1 fat 6 = > 4112640 529200 4641839 wd0s2 ext2fs 131 = > 4641840 211680 4641839 wd0s3 freebsd 165 C= > 4853520 3583440 8436959 wd0s4 ext2fs 131 = > 8436960 4158000 12594959 X freebsd 165 = > > The Disklabels table configuration: > > Part Mount Size Newfs > ---- ----- ---- ----- > wd0s1 2008MB DOS > wd0s3a / 103MB UFS Y > X swap 256MB SWAP > X /var 100MB UFS Y > X /usr 1674MB UFS Y > > When I commit the install I get an pop-up window > error message: > > Unable to make device node for /dev/X in dev! > The creation of file systems will be aborted. > > The Debug output from follows: > > DEBUG: installcommit: System state is 'init' > DEBUG: diskPartitionWrite: Examining 1 devices > DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for root filesystem > DEBUG: Found rootdev at wd0s3a! > DEBUG: Found vardev at X! > DEBUG: Found usrdev at X! > DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for swap partitions > DEBUG: Found swapdev at X! > > Is this disk partition scheme salvageable or do I > need to repartition the disk drive and reinstall > FreeBSD and Linux? > > Thanks, > George > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message