From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 23 08:14:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08809 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08800 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:14:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-160.laker.net [208.0.233.60]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id LAA28632; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:13:57 -0400 Message-Id: <199810231513.LAA28632@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Mark" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:01:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 installation Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 03:56:56 -0400, Mark wrote: >Unfortunately at this point i am completely clueless since i kinda expected >something like 4 partitions to be displayed here all of which of the same >size (I suppose it is possible that FreeBSD doesn't support 8 GB drives or >2 GB partitions *sigh*)... You are indeed clueless, thanks to the lack of training you've received from Mocrosoft ;o) Are these 4 partitions LOGICAL partitions ?? If so, that's your problem, you can't install FreeBSD to a DOS LOGICAL partition. I suggest that you buy Partition Magic and remove partition F and then move D and E up next to what used to be G (because once F is gone, G will become F). Now you'll have 2 GB at the beginning of this disk. When you use the slice editor during the install, be sure to keep the root partition within the first 1023 cyls. Which should be the first 528MB (or is it 504). Anyway, a root partition of 300MB will be plenty. Create seperate /usr partition. The install docs have more advice about other partitions within the slice. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message