From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 16:53:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postal.ece.ubc.ca (postal.ece.ubc.ca [137.82.52.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB2037B403 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:53:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shailesh@ece.ubc.ca) Received: from shannon.ece.ubc.ca (shannon.ece.ubc.ca [137.82.57.192]) by postal.ece.ubc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59B0ED08 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by shannon.ece.ubc.ca (8.8.5/SMI-4.0) id QAA13156; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:46:38 -0700 (PDT) From: shailesh sheoran To: Subject: can't setup freebsd on a 20GB harddisk Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, i have a 750MHz PIII system with 20GB hard disk. I have windows 98 running on it as the first operating system. I need to setup freebsd on the same hard disk. this is what i did: 1. Defragment C: (win 98 drive) 2. use fips to partition into 15 GB and 5 GB partitions 3. format the new partition using win98 format 4. boot from freebsd floppy 5. change the type of the 5GB partition to 165 6. try to create / /usr and swap on the 5GB 165 type partition 7. ERROR: can't create root partition at this point ... too big? etc. same thing for creating swap and /usr , i can't create the filesystems. i tried using FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE and FreeBSD-4.3 RELEASE, same problem. can someone please help asap. thanks, Shailesh Sheoran M.ASc. Department of Electrical Engineering University of British Columbia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message