Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:40:16 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing 3.3 Message-ID: <37E8F860.8A1725FE@alcatel.fr> References: <199909221511.LAA09037@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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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 <none> 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 <ALT-F2> 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
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