From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 1 18: 7:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FBB937BEDD for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 26467 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2000 02:07:28 -0000 Received: from userbl70.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.177) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2000 02:07:28 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA01112; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:07:27 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:07:27 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: John Murphy Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slices named X in FDISK Message-ID: <20000302020727.F327@marder-1> References: <5LG9OMCgTIyq8Ob56lYMZdmd33rc@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <5LG9OMCgTIyq8Ob56lYMZdmd33rc@4ax.com>; from john@t-f-i.freeserve.co.uk on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:56:26AM +0000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:56:26AM +0000, John Murphy wrote: > Can't seem to find the answer to this: HELLLP! > > Trying to install both FreeBSD 3.2 and win95 on the same Seagate HD > model ST38410A 8.4G BIOS says it's 16383 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors. > > The Redmond software seems to insist on having the first partition, > so I've used Partition Magic to set up the drive thus: > > 454.9M Bootable FAT for drive C: > 31.4M Unformatted Hidden Bootable for FreeBSD / > 7.8M Boot Manager Active > 5,020.3M FAT32 for drive D: (extended) > 2,706.3M Unused for FreeBSD swap and /usr > > Using the Novice install method and CDRom... > > FDISK Partition editor shows this: (after I create the slices I want) > Disk name: wd0 > Disk Geometry: 1048 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 16836120 sectors[1] > > Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 931707 931769 wd0s1 2 fat 6 = > 931770 64260 996029 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C= > 996030 16065 1012094 wd0s3 1 OS/2 bootmgr 10 = > 1012095 10281600 11293694 wd0s4 4 extended 5 = > 11293695 5542425 16836119 X 3 freebsd 165 => > 16836120 5544 16841663 - 6 unused 0 > > > [1] Should I set this to what the BIOS says? > > So on to the Disklabel editor (ain't gonna work though, is it) > > Disk wd0 Partition name: wd0s2 Free 0 blocks (0MB) > Disk wd0 Partition name: X Free 0 blocks (0MB) > > Part Mount Size Newfs > ---- ----- ---- ----- > wd0s1 454MB DOS > wd0s2a / 31MB UFS N > X swap 256MB SWAP > X /usr 2450MB UFS N > > I then get the message about no /var but that's no problem, but then > the next message is "Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! > the creation of filesystems will be aborted." I'm not surprised. > > The next message is "Couldn't make filesystem properly. Aborting." > > I've looked at the debug messages on VTY1 but I don't think they > would be helpful here. I've noted them but I guess the question is: > > How can I use the "X" slice as (say) wd0s5? > Your 'X' partition, which *must* be a primary to use for FreeBSD comes after the extended partition. This is not allowed. All primary partitions must come before the extended partition. HTH > I've previously installed ok on a 486 where it's the only OS, and > also on this same hardware using a spare (but slow) HD (wd1) so I > know the hardware is compatible. > > Any and all advice will be much appreciated. And thanks for a great OS. > > John. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message