From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 15: 7:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973E1150B3 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 15:06:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA09047; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:35:51 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA02587; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:35:50 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990305093550.K490@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:35:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jason A. Pfeil" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd) References: <19990304135314.E441@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason A. Pfeil on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 05:28:14PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 17:28:14 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for offering to help and I apologize for the "extraneous" > information. However, I included the information to provide all I could > about the geometry of the drive so someone could provide insight without > having to ask for more information. I don't think three copies of a voluminous .sig help there. >> What's the message? > > The message is that it can't create the slice (Too large?) is added > afterwards. I'd like to see the exact message. >>>> Do you have ANY other solution? >> >> fdisk? I'm guessing that what you show there is an fdisk table. When >> installing FreeBSD, select the third disk (if they're all SCSI, it'll >> be da2), and use the partition editor to replace the first partition >> (in other words, either change the type, or delete it and create a new >> one). This is part of the normal installation. >> > > I used fdisk to create the partitions in the first place. The drive is > IDE and is the master on the secondary controller. OK, by default that's wd2. > Unfortunately, it appears that the installation program can't handle > HD's with >1024 cylinders. Is this the case? No. > Another option would be to use FreeBSD's installation proggy to > delete the already-created partition and create a new one. Any > ideas? That's what I was suggesting above. But if you don't want to change the size of the partition, changing the partition type would do. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message