From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 14:34:13 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 E14FF106569C for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:34:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886698FC37 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:34:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.19]) by QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Tlax1a0090QuhwU55qaCtW; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:34:12 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id TqaB1a00K2P6wsM3NqaCuv; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:34:12 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=526rwrygDQ8A:10 a=mQ5bP1b1WGUA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=xnawy-_w9N5CXEjYLdYA:9 a=iOXw-cFyzriiRxCI2kevrCVc88oA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 680D5C9437; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:34:11 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: andys Message-ID: <20081017143411.GA23707@icarus.home.lan> References: <20081017122207.GA21157@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install 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: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:34:14 -0000 On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:20:54PM +0100, andys wrote: > HiJeremy, > > yep I understand what its complaining about I just dont understand how > that could be wrong after doing a fresh install. The reason I was looking > is because we left some space unallocated and I need to create a new > slice or however you call it in BSD... It sounds to me that someone "left some space" in the wrong part of the sysinstall process then -- they should have left some space for slices, when in fact it appears they left some space for actual partitions. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |