From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 20:52:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA22B16A4BF for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044E843FE9 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA17113 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:52:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:52:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Glass Message-Id: <200308300352.VAA17113@lariat.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble setting up multiple boot on big disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 03:52:17 -0000 I'm setting up a laptop which will need to dual-boot Windows 2000 Server (ugh!) and FreeBSD. I partitioned the large (60 GB) hard disk so that there was an 18 GB NTFS partition at the beginning, followed by a 20 GB partition for data, followed by an 18 GB partition for FreeBSD. But when I attempted to install FreeBSD, the disk labeling utility wouldn't let me divide the 18 GB partition (or "slice," in traditional UNIX parlance) into file systems ("partitions" in UNIX parlance). I get an error message that says I can't do it because something's "too big." What limitation am I hitting, and how do I get around it? --Brett Glass