From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 20:33:33 2004 Return-Path: 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 9A05A16A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:33:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipop1.tm.net.my (unknown [202.188.0.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B769143D1D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee139@streamyx.com) Received: from av5 ([172.20.0.22]) by ipop1.tm.net.my (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HT0004R98NJ3B@ipop1.tm.net.my> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:04:32 +0800 (SGT) Received: from hanxue.dyndns.org ([219.95.161.43]) by ipop1.tm.net.my (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.6 (built Oct 18 2002)) with SMTP id <0HT000C718NI42@ipop1.tm.net.my> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:04:31 +0800 (SGT) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:11:57 +0000 From: Lee Hanxue To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20040213121157.0e65f332.lee139@streamyx.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Problem installing FreeBSD after Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:33:33 -0000 Hi, I have 1 primary partition, containing 4 extended partitions. Mandrake Linux 9.2 is installed over there. Using fdisk in FreeBSD installer, I created another primary partition and tried installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 there. Unfortunately, the installation process got hung while the installer was "Creating a root filesystem on ad10s3". I waited for more than 3 hours. I selected none when I was prompted to install a boot manager, since I wanted to boot using Grub which is already there when I install Linux. This is the output from Linux's cfdisk: Partition Table for /dev/hda First Last # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags -- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- --------- 1 Primary 0 4016249 63 4016250 Linux (83) Boot (80) 2 Primary 4016250 23760134 0 19743885 Extended (05) None (00) 5 Logical 4016250 20643524 63 16627275 Linux (83) None (00) 6 Logical 20643525 23085404 63 2441880 Linux (83) None (00) 7 Logical 23085405 23760134 63 674730 Linux swap (82) None (00) 3 Primary 23760135 28659959 0 4899825 FreeBSD (A5) None (00) Primary 28659960 78156224 0 49496265 Free Space None (00) What did I do wrong? Thank you in advance. Yours truly, Hanxue