From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 19:23:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02213 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 19:23:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02188 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 19:23:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA21404; Sat, 2 May 1998 19:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 19:23:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Zoldi Arpad cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message