Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:28:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jeff Freeman <freemj@rpi.edu> Cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems! help Help I'm being repressed by the installer! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129212828.1248h-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34D03378.7768071F@rpi.edu>
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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Jeff Freeman wrote: > Here is my situation: > > I have a Quantum EIDE 3.2gig drive. On it I have win95 on a primary > partition of 500 megs, (2) 1,024 meg partitions for data and programs > (both are formatted dos and used by win95), and a 500 meg unformatted > partition ready for FreebSD 2.2.5. I boot from the floppy and I get to > the partition manager. It says to create a slice by selecting an unused > partition. I see a 50 k unused partition, the 500 meg dos primary, the > 2 gigs of extended dos, and an 8 meg leftover unused partition, but I > can't get to the 500 meg. You need to get that 500 megs totally unallocated so it shows up as `unused'. You can 't install FreeBSD inside of any other partition type, it requires one of it's own. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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