From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 18:45:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sullivan.realtime.net (sullivan.realtime.net [205.238.128.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0C237BB4E for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 18:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucegb@sullivan.realtime.net) Received: (from brucegb@localhost) by sullivan.realtime.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA06245 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 May 2000 20:45:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brucegb) From: Bruce Burden Message-Id: <200005080145.UAA06245@sullivan.realtime.net> Subject: Re: Novice needs help In-Reply-To: from Paul E Travis at "May 7, 2000 01:02:08 pm" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 20:45:24 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Using Partition Magic, I created a second 1.5G primary partition (FAT) in > front of the FAT32. I'd like to use the 1.5G for the BSD OS. > So, if I understand what you are saying correctly, you have a 1.5GB FAT partition and then a 7.5GB FAT 32 partition, right? (Plus a MBR space, etc). > > My problem comes after I boot into the FAT partition w/ the kern/mfsroot > disks during the configuration process (before actually installing the dist > files from the CDROM). > If I understad what you are saying, you need to delete the FAT partition. Assign that partition to freebsd when you get to the FDISK Partition Editor menu when you boot. > > as Freebsd in the fdisk menu, I am unable create the file systems (root, > user, and swap space)in the disk label menu. > That doesn't make sense. :-) I think that is because you are trying to install FreeBSD into a FAT partiton, and it doesn't like that. Also, make sure you make the FreeBSD partition bootable, probably with the FDISK Partiion Editor menu. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message