From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 00:23:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2DC16A417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:23:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from virgo977virgo@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2566F13C447 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:23:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from virgo977virgo@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so1126161waf for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:23:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=8vXA1qKUh6WX0+bAoZUIy2ndVmuQivMKhwuZImSrm7o=; b=AbDW4w5+tcqrJtJ7MQzPnXtsuINSFbCcXCROJSHL9DF6X0q4U72xUT1xjaM5OuYWL2g85Sz5hIZ9rRV0VQKv70Ah5AnG/aWXxJrX+I8lTwH4m33mr8le4Fx1VJwn1w7EEWVdb36JodE97ag7vief4Ceg9C02POfTauCGjktT8f0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=UwFDVyCRkDry9nXxfuXpDDN0c9CjIHrjjDcWqeVl/ye3HpZxHvziMGhhvOWPEGG32NL1fm2ud8X6IDIwfdO6kFBeECXPBGTHCExD6a0q7lDA3PS/Nx0907XZHdKSos8zexoE+LKzvR4c4P+z1G9cHvY3rhgi0UJRs4VpV9mcxXA= Received: by 10.114.176.1 with SMTP id y1mr1309328wae.1196121509255; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:58:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.54.11 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:58:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <906f26060711261558j42749f58mf5cd3cf4619a701b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:58:29 +0100 From: "Stefano Spinucci" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: installation problems of FreeBSD 7 beta 2 on Dell D610 (multiboot con solaris, linux, winxp) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:23:10 -0000 I encountered some problems installing FreeBSD 7 beta 2 on my Dell D610 laptop, on the original 60 gb hd; the hd is formatted as follows: - primary 1, 15 gb, ntfs for Windows XP - primary 2, 15 gb, solaris for Open Solaris - primary 3, 10 gb, fat32 for FreeBSD - extended, 20 gb, 3 partitions for linux I tried to install FreeBSD many times, but after the geometry error (the geometry is however correctly recognized), FDISK doesn't find any partition and the space is shown as free, unpartitioned. I tried to set the partition type for FreeBSD to FAT16, FAT32, FreeBSD and I also reformatted the partition many times, but with no success. have you any idea??? Thanks in advance. PS I wrote also to the italian mailing list gufi, without reply. bye --- Stefano Spinucci