Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:50:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@cs.fsu.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903042049400.18801-100000@xi> In-Reply-To: <19990305093550.K490@lemis.com>
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Unfortunately, I tried to change the type of the partition to 165 (freebsd). I guess I'll have to try to change the size of the partition. On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 > ---- Jason A. Pfeil pfeil@cs.fsu.edu Information Systems Developer jpfeil@lsi.fsu.edu CASDL (850)644-8014; fax: (850)644-4952 Learning Systems Institute University Center C-3527 http://idl.fsu.edu Tallahassee, FL 32306-2540 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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