From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 21:29:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02088 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:29:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dc.seflin.org (d055633c@dc.seflin.org [199.227.192.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02075 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:29:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from d055633c@dc.seflin.org) Received: (from d055633c@localhost) by dc.seflin.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA04196; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:29:39 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:29:39 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Jackson Subject: Re: installing Freebsd on a 1.6GB drive To: Mark Szlaga cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Mark Szlaga wrote: > Greetings, > I am trying to install FreeBSD 3.0-980324-SNAP on a dual P-200MMX system > I am running multiple partitions on a large drive, the total size is 1.6GB. > Linux has the first 709MB + 64MB swap. I plan on installing FreeBSD on the > third and fourth partitions (64MB and 711MB respectively). > > I have LBA set and the c/h/s is 787/63/64. The error that the partition > utility in the install gives me is partition too big. even when I try to > partition the 64MB (cyl 394-496 by linux fdisk) it says partition too big. > > System Stats: > MB: Tyan Tomcat IVD > Proc: 2x P-200MMX > hda: s0 340MB Win95 partition > hdb: s0: 64MB linux swap > s1: 709MB Linux ext2fs > s2: 64MB aimed for FreeBSD Swap > s3: 711MB aimed for FreeBSD filesystem > hdd: ATAPI CD-ROM > Ram: 64MB EDO > > Hopefully this is enough info. I apologize for the linux device names, but > I am not that familiar with FreeBSD yet. (which is why I am setting it up :) > > TIA, > Mark > > Mark Szlaga mszlaga@umd.umich.edu http://www.umd.umich.edu/~mszlaga/ > /dev/hdb5 - 0.5Gb of spinning metal, all alone in the night... > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Try creating the partitions in a different order. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message