Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:18:07 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: <scottman@altern.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Disklabel shows my DOS partition? Message-ID: <200208172118.07260.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020818004649.8A38943E42@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20020818004649.8A38943E42@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Saturday 17 August 2002 08:39 pm, scottman@altern.org wrote:
| Dear helping spirit,
|
| While trying to install FreeBSD for the first time on my PC, I come up with
| an error message when using the FreeBSD Disklabel Editor create or auto
| default options. It mentions that my disk is to big... Even when specifying
| the 30 mb suggested minimum!
|
| Prior of entering the Disklabel Editor, in the FDisk Partition Editor, I
| changed the type of a 1.6 gig ext2 linux partition to a FreeBSD (165) one.
| I then had a FAT partition of 6 gig, an extended partition of 1.7 gig and
| my new FreeBSD partition.
|
| Accepting these settings and entering the Dislabel Editor I find a DOS
| partition listed of 6 gig?
Right. A DOS partition and a FAT partition are two different names for the
same thing.
But disklabel shouldn't be trying to work with a FAT partition; that's very
odd. But I'm wondering if your FreeBSD partition is a primary partition. It
must be for FreeBSD to install properly; it cannot be a logical partition in
an extended partition. You will then subdivide that primary partition with
the disklabel editor.
I hope that this helps; I admit to not completely understanding how your
problem came about.
| This is where I cant seem to change to the
| FreeBSD partition previously created... And when trying to create a new
| partition, I get the disk to big error suggestion.
|
| Any help on this subject would be more than welcome since I really want to
| become BSD user!
|
| Thanks
| Scottman
|
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