Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:46:38 -0700 (PDT) From: shailesh sheoran <shailesh@ece.ubc.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: can't setup freebsd on a 20GB harddisk Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0106121641170.13153-100000@shannon.ece.ubc.ca>
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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
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