From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 15 4:22: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-b.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2685F15022 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 04:22:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sarig@bezeqint.net) Received: from asmodean ([212.25.120.157]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.07.30.00.05.p8) with SMTP id <0FL800A69NOEGA@mail.bezeqint.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:21:52 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:21:01 +0200 From: Oren Sarig Subject: Re: Installation To: Arnold Shcherban , questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <005f01bf2f63$e6a7fd20$9d7819d4@asmodean> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 References: <19991112004106.15301.qmail@www0b.netaddress.usa.net> X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's not clear what you are trying to do... did you create a 4Gb partition, or a 200Mb partition? When you enter a number for the partition size, you enter in in sectors, if you wanted a 200Mb partition you should have specified the size as "200M" not "200" that would allocate 200 sectors (=100Kb) Besides, I doubt 200Mb would be enough for *everything* (1 CD = 650Mb, and the dist is 4CDs = 4*650 = 2600Mb, compressed). Wht do you mean by the boot manager partition? The boot manager does not requite a seperate partition (I think OS/2's does, but i also think it's the only one who does). You should create the partition you want to install freebsd in, and then when you click `q` to signal you are done, select the boot manager in the menu that would pop up. -- Oren Sarig sarig@bezeqint.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Arnold Shcherban To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 2:41 AM Subject: Installation I've just received 4 Greenbay CD-ROMs won at online auction, and immediately started with installation. Created 2 installation diskettes, booted the system from kernel, and then through mfs root got into installation phase (in novice mode). Following the instructions, created Freebsd partition slice, and tried to create the boot manager partition, just to get not enough space message. Now, I have more than 4Gb of free space on my C: drive, so how come the installer couldn't allocate enough partition space if all it's needed is about 200Mb for installing everything there is in FreeBsd ? I need your help, please, A. Shcherban. PS. I've checked - the hardware is compatible. ____________________________________________________________ ________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message