From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 00:15:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA08476 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:15:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA08471 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:15:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA02800; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:11:05 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:11:03 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: Steve Friedrich cc: CHARL , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: installation problems In-Reply-To: <199809161418.KAA20390@laker.net> 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 > > I think it's because you've laid out your disk wrong. I believe the > root partition has to fit within the first 1024 sectors, and your's > doesn't. You have to shrink either or both of your dos partition > and/or root to fit within 504M. This information appears in the copy > of "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey, but no where in the > handbook... uh, it is in the handbook. if you installed the docs, go to /usr/share/docs/handbook and do a grep on 1024 ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message