From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 15:20:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00930 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 15:20:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wuzwuz.ucg.ie (arpi@wuzwuz.ucg.ie [140.203.8.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00914 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 15:20:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arpi@wuzwuz.ucg.ie) Received: from localhost (arpi@localhost) by wuzwuz.ucg.ie (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA15947; Wed, 13 May 1998 22:51:13 +0100 Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 22:51:13 +0100 (IST) From: Zoldi Arpad Reply-To: Zoldi Arpad To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: 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 On Sat, 2 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Zoldi Arpad wrote: > > > I am trying to install FreeBSD and I have some problems. I have the > > bootdisk, I am trying to install to a 450M partition. I don't know if > > it's important, the partition contains a caldera linux installation. > > I wanted install over ftp. I got with the installation to the fdisk stage. > > I changed the partition type ("slice" as I see in freebsd) from ext2fs to > > freebsd. > > That was wrong. 1) You hosed your Linux partition, 2) the parameters on > it probably confused the heck out of sysinstall. If you wanted to replace > the partition you should have deleted it instead, not change the FS type. Yes, that worked. Thank you very much. Regards, Arpi Arpad Zoldi Galway, Ireland arpi@wuzwuz.ucg.ie > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message