From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 17:06:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB51D1065689 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:06:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rjgonzale@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com (mail-gx0-f17.google.com [209.85.217.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C4968FC19 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:06:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rjgonzale@gmail.com) Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so9229207gxk.19 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:06:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lsJOltsxkqChWkkinkLhdouso6crICG1bpuX3X0mS2Y=; b=XoUY3BJDc8LmWeYGqM3MXrm1LgbdGP9elruV1Lv/BBAV94VfziByxtjd/hzQhLRUGw W9XnwC8xD1njNlYxeoDPAj27zJRVWwy83UPMCCJKADno50CZlgVTI6sQGAr+aGH9P0FP ZV7msKVUmPAq9GENrhQQI0YHmbXcEZQqBNtZQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EUhPfRT2ug40gFu0U1MS5jBAFuOc5d7s/8hW8SQqcWPSR1xpV8xdQD20OADjhFLgJy rc5+nQWVNG6FJADsPbhA309hdaJVbf9RKEZ2fltpkkpFzxeAeH5hXAzjKYL16HL6a6pM hvDi7vhQT0NAggRC+qJlxgbEFUVm4Wio/48wA= Received: by 10.100.32.6 with SMTP id f6mr2528441anf.45.1222533278708; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.102? (79-66-231-201.fibertel.com.ar [201.231.66.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d25sm237444and.15.2008.09.27.09.34.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48DE6099.60007@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:34:33 -0300 From: Rodrigo Gonzalez User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080902) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ray Madigan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:06:35 -0000 Ray Madigan wrote: > I am trying to move a couple of machines from Suse Linux to FreeBSD and I am > having an installation issue on the first machine. I have a 1.8GHZ Pentium > on an ASUS mainboard. DUring installation I give the geometry of the drive > on the machine, a Western Digital WD8000JB, the drive geometry that I find > on their website 16383/16/63 in FDisk. The disk was used for the Suse > installation so the partitions are correct. So I press Q on the keyboard. > I go through the installation until I get to DiskLabel and the drive doesn't > show up on the top of the screen. The screen is blank except for the > options section. > > Does anyone know what could be going wrong here. > > Thanks in advance > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The partitions are not correct, you have to delete them and create a freebsd slice, after that you will be able to make the partitions