From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 26 17:16:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09450 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pinky.tcn.net (comp20.tcn.net [209.135.79.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09429 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:15:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from krw@tcn.net) Received: from tcn.net (really [127.0.0.1]) by tcn.net via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident krw using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 20:17:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <360D8436.A8F1E900@tcn.net> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 20:17:58 -0400 From: Ken Westerback X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing 3.0-19980917 on 9GB Disk - "Unable to create root partition - too big?" References: <360C3A52.9557CD12@tcn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To answer my own question: Apparently merely changing the partition type was not enough to convince the install procedure to reformat it. Once I deleted and recreated the partition, causing the 'C' flag to appear beside it, all was well. The 'A'uto config created the appropriate file systems and the install completed. ---- Ken Ken Westerback wrote: > > I downloaded the 3.0-19980917 snapshot to a couple of zip disks at work > over our convenient fractional T1 connection and rushed home to install > 3.0 on the partition I had saved for it on my 9GB disk. > > The disk is an IDE (wd0) in LBA mode using a BIOS geometry of 1247 > cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track. I have partitioned it into 3 > primary partitions and 1 extended partition. The first primary (2G) in > Win98. The second primary (100MB) is my Linux root, the third primary > (3G) is where I want to install FreeBSD and the extended (4G) is divided > into various slices of my Linux installation. The partitions are ordered > on the disk in the above order. > > By my calculation the third primary should occupy space < 1024 cylinders > and I thought this was all I had to watch out for. > > I had installed OpenBSD into the third primary and it worked fine. So > when I booted the FreeBSD floppy I just changed the type of the > partition to 165 and tried to 'A'uto create the various file systems > within it. When I did that I got the message > > "Unable to create root partition - Too big?" > > When I tried to manually create a 100MB root partition I got a similiar > error. > > Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I need to do to get FreeBSD > installed on this partition? Or can someone explain why it is > impossible? I searched dejanews and the freebsd-current mailing list > archive with no success. > > I have Partition Magic 4.0 so I can slide the partitions around > (including the ext2 ones) to accomodate any required configuration. But > I do need to keep Win98 and Linux around for the forseeable future ... > > ---- Ken > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message