From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 13:31:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cgi.icon.co.za (cgi.icon.co.za [196.26.208.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4417514F1C for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:30:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from treetops@icon.co.za) Received: from mail450.icon.co.za (mail450.icon.co.za [196.26.208.3]) by cgi.icon.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99041464F6 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 1999 23:30:17 +0200 (SAST) Received: from warren (a3-jhb-3.dial-up.net [196.26.216.3]) by mail450.icon.co.za (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA18482 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:30:15 +0200 (GMT) Message-ID: <004d01be6686$33dc9ee0$03d81ac4@warren> From: "Warren Brown" To: Subject: Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:30:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_004A_01BE6696.F1BBD920" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3610.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3610.800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004A_01BE6696.F1BBD920 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi I've got a 6 gig ide hard drive, when I initially installed BSD I just = chose automatic for everything. When I began to use BSD however, I quickly = ran out of disk space. It seems that BSD picks up my hard drive as a 2gig. = So I went to the web site and read the tips on how to use pfdisk to set up = my cy/hd/sec, which I did, it came to 787/255/63. When I did a re-installation, it picked up the drive parameters. But when I try to create the various partitions ie / swap var and usr it gives me a load = of error messages, one in particular is 'can't do without my init'. It = also complains about the bad disk file etc etc. So I installed linux to see if the same thing would happen, but linux = just accepted my real settings ie 13410 15 63, complained about the cylinders being over 1024 but carried on with the installation 100%. I then wiped linux and installed bsd on the default partition of 2gigs. How do I use the remaining 4gigs of hard drive space, without BSD complaining. I don't particularly want to switch back to linux because everything installs so nicely under BSD. Should I use the pfdisk utility = to create two 2gig partitions, then how do I newfs without getting all = those nasty messages. thanks WBrown ------=_NextPart_000_004A_01BE6696.F1BBD920 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi

I've got a 6 gig ide hard drive, when I initially = installed BSD I=20 just chose
automatic for everything.  When I began to use BSD = however, I=20 quickly ran
out of disk space.  It seems that BSD picks up my = hard drive=20 as a 2gig.  So
I went to the web site and read the tips on how = to use=20 pfdisk to set up my
cy/hd/sec, which I did, it came to = 787/255/63.  When=20 I did a
re-installation, it picked up the drive parameters.  But = when I=20 try to
create the various partitions ie / swap var and usr it gives = me a load=20 of
error messages, one in particular is 'can't do without my = init'.  It=20 also
complains about the bad disk file etc etc.
So I installed = linux to=20 see if the same thing would happen, but linux just
accepted my real = settings=20 ie 13410 15 63, complained about the cylinders
being over 1024 but = carried on=20 with the installation 100%.
I then wiped linux and installed bsd on = the=20 default partition of 2gigs.

How do I use the remaining 4gigs of = hard=20 drive space, without BSD
complaining. I don't particularly want to = switch=20 back to linux because
everything installs so nicely under BSD. Should = I use=20 the pfdisk utility to
create two 2gig partitions, then how do I newfs = without=20 getting all those
nasty=20 messages.

thanks

WBrown


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