From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 21:41:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8964737C497 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA18689; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:06:15 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:06:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: GENE DINKEY Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Slice size larger than disk size during install? Message-ID: <20000710140615.A18656@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 9 July 2000 at 7:40:32 -0700, GENE DINKEY wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a P90 w/ 24MB RAM. I'm using the boot > floppies, the first time I went through the installation the only problem I > had was a loose cable on the back of the cdrom (probably happened while I > was moving the system) that caused the package installation to abort. I > didn't have any problems slicing out the HDD or anything like that. > > After I rebooted I can boot off of the floppies but when I try to load the > install it tries to read the HDD then says "slice size larger than disk > size", gives a few numbers (slice Vs disk and such) We need to see them. > and then panics out "Not going anywhere without init". > > The only thing I can think of is that I chose to dedicate the whole > disk to BSD (it's a 800MB HDD and I don't plan on using any other > OS's on the system)... Nope, that's what most of us do. We need more input. Numbers, for example, and messages. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message