Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:57:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: shailesh@ece.ubc.ca (shailesh sheoran) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't setup freebsd on a 20GB harddisk Message-ID: <200106130057.UAA02739@scraemondaemon.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0106121641170.13153-100000@shannon.ece.ubc.ca> from "shailesh sheoran" at Jun 12, 2001 04:46:38 PM
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You have the root partition for BSD past the 1024 cylinder of the hard drive. I am assuming you want this. 15 GB Windows First Slice 5 GB FreeBSD Second Slice(BSD partitions in here) Unfortunately, you need something more like this. 7.5 GB Windows First Slice 100 MB FreeBSD Second Slice(root partition here only) 7.5 GB Windows Third Slice(the ever handy Windows backup slice) 4.9 GB FreeBSD Fourth Slice(/usr, swap, /var, /home, etc.) Check Windows and see if it is taking up more that 7.5 gigs. If it isn't, shrink it. You can always add more after the BSD root partition. Ian In the last episode, shailesh sheoran stated... > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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