From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 01:05:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA05991 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 01:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silas.cc.monash.edu.au (root@silas.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA05978 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 01:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha1.monash.edu.au (dialup-t1-72.Melbourne.netspace.net.au [210.15.250.72]) by silas.cc.monash.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.0) with ESMTP id SAA26339 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 18:05:24 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <33F80260.A0426D13@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 18:05:52 +1000 From: Cameron Burley Organization: Fear Factory X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Installation X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm installing FreeBSD, as a first time installation, on a PCI P-100 with 16mb ram, 850mb IDE hdd. The problem I'm having is that whenever I go to create a FreeBSD partition with the command, to create a slice, I enter the amount required (250M), press enter and the partition dosen't appear so i can set it bootable. Likewise, it dosen't appear in the next step to create swap files etc in the newly created FreeBSD slice. Is this a harddrive problem? I've checked the geometry option and the hd is as it is in the bios... any suggestions? thanks. Cameron Burley Bacherlor of Computing Monash University Caulfield Australia