From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 21:29:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18938 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18928 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:29:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA01523; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:28:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jeff Freeman cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems! help Help I'm being repressed by the installer! In-Reply-To: <34D03378.7768071F@rpi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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