Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 19:23:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Zoldi Arpad <arpi@wuzwuz.ucg.ie> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502192240.21194j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980430004030.20880A-100000@wuzwuz.ucg.ie>
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Zoldi Arpad wrote:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD and I have some problems. I have the
> bootdisk, I am trying to install to a 450M partition. I don't know if
> it's important, the partition contains a caldera linux installation.
> I wanted install over ftp. I got with the installation to the fdisk stage.
> I changed the partition type ("slice" as I see in freebsd) from ext2fs to
> freebsd.
That was wrong. 1) You hosed your Linux partition, 2) the parameters on
it probably confused the heck out of sysinstall. If you wanted to replace
the partition you should have deleted it instead, not change the FS type.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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