From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 23 11:26:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06157 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:26:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us (fn3.tfn.net [207.156.5.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06151 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:26:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lauramic@fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us) Received: from localhost (lauramic@localhost) by fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA19714 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:38:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:38:12 -0500 (EST) From: Laura nmi Michaels To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing FreeBSD 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 Am trying to get FreeBSD installed on my computer and am having a problem with the hard drive section of the installation. I bought my pentium PC from a company I was working for and they said they could install Debian Linux on the system for me. They installed the base system, but they couldn't get the boot manager working and I could never install any new packages or get dpkg to work. I spent several days trying to get Linux going properly and have finally given up. Was reading the information on FreeBSD at http://www.freebsd.org and thought perhaps this might work better than Linux has for me. The installation process sounded much simpler. I got as far as the disk label editor screen and I got stuck. Am getting an error of 'Unable to create the root partition. Too big?' when I select the a (auto default) option. Below is the information on my hard drive. I have a 4 Gig drive and was hoping to install FreeBSD over the Linux sections of the drive. >From FDISK Partition Editor Screen: Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 4192902 4192964 wd0s1 2 fat 6 4192965 2056320 6249284 wd0s2 4 extended 5 6249285 176715 6425999 wd0s3 1 linux_swap 130 6426000 2040255 8466254 wd0s4 1 ext2fs 131 8466255 945 8467199 - 6 unused 0 Is there any way to get FreeBSD up and running with this hard drive without interfering with the programs already on drive C (first hard drive partition)? Can anyone walk me through what changes I need to make to my drive to get this to work? The help would be very much appreciated. Thank you. Laura Michaels To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message