From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 11:02:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23665 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bartman.ic.sunysb.edu (bartman.ic.sunysb.edu [129.49.12.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23497 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:00:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsabella@ic.sunysb.edu) Received: from ic.sunysb.edu (as4-46.dialup.sunysb.edu [129.49.81.52]) by bartman.ic.sunysb.edu (8.8.7/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA01088; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:00:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <352531CB.E957988C@ic.sunysb.edu> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 14:00:27 -0500 From: Jason Sabella X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Doug. I got the Partition resizer program and did what you had said. I decreased the size of the extended partition down to 2 megs (it was still 4 megs even though I deleted the E drive for some reason). So now, FIPS prints out: Part|Boot|Head Cyl Sect|System|Head Cyl Sect|Start Sect|Num Sectors|MB 1 yes 1 0 1 06h 254 260 63 63 4192902 2047 2 no 0 261 1 05h 254 521 63 4192965 4192965 2047 This looks correct because partition 2 no longer says 4094MB, its says 2047. So the room should be there. But once again, when I go to install FreeBSD(noice installation), it says no room. And it still shows the same screen during installation(shown below)... Disk name: wd2 Disk Geometry: 512 cyls/12 heads/32 sectors = 196608 sectors Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0 32 196192 196223 wd2s1 2 fat 6 196224 384 196607 - 6 unused 0 Do you have any ideas? Thank you, Jason Sabella --- Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Jason Sabella wrote: > > > Hi Doug. I haven't written in a few days. I have the 6.4 GIG hard > > drive in 3 equal partitions. C and D for DOS, and I want the E drive > > for FreeBSD. I went into DOS's fdisk and deleted the E drive. So now > > when I run windows, the C drive is 2.1 megs, the D drive is still 2.1 > > megs, and the E drive is gone (so the CD-Rom, etc moved down a > > letter..). Then I ran FIPS on the FreeBSD CD-Rom to split the Extended > > Partition (the 4.2 meg part that contained the D & E drives). It says > > "FIPS can't split extended partitions". What should I do? > > Below is what the FIPS screen looks like: > > Ugh. You need to either resize your extended partition (probably by > backup & restore) or try Partition Resizer or Partition Magic. The > extended partition consumes the rest of the disk. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message