Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:30:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jason Sabella <jsabella@ic.sunysb.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403132926.10860R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <352531CB.E957988C@ic.sunysb.edu>
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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jason Sabella wrote: > 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 Looks good. You don't need to use FIPS now. > 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 These aren't the same disk. Are you sure you're pointing at the right disk? wd2 would be the first disk on the slave controller. 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
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