From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 06:53:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29CE16A400 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 06:53:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ericdan@ucla.edu) Received: from smtp-1.smtp.ucla.edu (smtp-1.smtp.ucla.edu [169.232.46.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C70D43D46 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 06:53:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ericdan@ucla.edu) Received: from mail.ucla.edu (mail.ucla.edu [169.232.47.145]) by smtp-1.smtp.ucla.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k456r2lw006894 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 23:53:02 -0700 Received: from localhost (pool-71-106-208-236.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.106.208.236]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ucla.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k456r1BN029501 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 23:53:01 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:53:00 -0700 From: Eric Dan To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20060505065259.GA5583@box.myhome.westell.com> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.16-beyond (i686) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Probable-Spam: no X-Spam-Report: none X-Scanned-By: smtp.ucla.edu on 169.232.46.136 Subject: 6.1 install problems with creating partitions 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, 05 May 2006 06:53:02 -0000 trying to install 6.1 on my secondary master partition or slice 2. I come from linux so please be forgiving with the naming or slices and partitions. i created a 40G slice on ad3 with fdisk, then with disklabel i created a 4g / a 512M swap and the rest for /home i used the "S" option on the "/" partition. the installer gives me and error saying that it wasn't able to create the partions on the slice and the install aborts. what can i do? i don't wanna give up that ext3 part on this drive. thanks -- Eric Dan ericdan@ucla.edu UCLA ID#103297286 http://www.vladuz976.com/ GPG key: FD13E94D ( B9D1 7D8D 34E0 D0B7 D3C9 4571 0BAC 1DC7 FD13 E94D)