Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:56 +0100 From: "Mike Gunning" <mgun@perihelion.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD partitions Message-ID: <199810220952.KAA21070@betty.perihelion.co.uk>
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I have so far been unsuccessful in my attempts to install FreeBSD on my home machine because of the dumb behaviour of the standard partitioning and slicing program in 3.0 (2.2.6 behaved the same). I have a 6.1Gb disk with the following partitions: 600Mb Win95 (drive C:) 20Mb Partition Magic 5.5Gb Extended partition The extended partition has the following partitions: 2Gb Win95 (drive D:) 1.5Gb Linux EXT2 FS 100Mb Linux swap 1.8Gb free space into which I wish to install FreeBSD The BIOS is using LBA addressing and says that the hard has 780 cylinders and 255 heads. The first problem that I had was that the FreeBSD partition program does not seem to have the faintest idea about extended partitions, so I used partition magic to rearrange the partitions. I then had a 3.7Gb extended partition and a 1.8Gb FreeBSD primary partition. I could then tag and use the partition for FreeBSD, but when it came to slicing the disk and creating a root file system, the program choked and said that the location of the root file system was wrong and could not be created there. I can only assume that it thinks that it is past the 1024 cylinder limit. I then resized the drive C: so that I had 100Mb space after the Win95 partition which I could use for FreeBSD. This still barfs with the same error when I create the root filesystem. Is there another tool I can use to fix it so that I can install. I must point out that the boot loader has no problem booting Linux, so there should be no problem booting FreeBSD in either location on my disk. I have seen a message on the net which suggested putting the FreeBSD partition first, but it seems like a serious problem with the program if this is the last resort. Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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