From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 21:21:48 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 B478D16A4BF for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E9E43FAF for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:21:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h7U4Lh228382; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:21:44 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Brett Glass , questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:21:43 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200308300352.VAA17113@lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <200308300352.VAA17113@lariat.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308292121.43568.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: 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 04:21:48 -0000 On Friday 29 August 2003 08:52 pm, Brett Glass wrote: > 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? Make sure that W2K left space and you aren't using what is left of an extended partition. I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on to a 80 GB so that isn't the problem. On my W2K machines, I make them all primary and "basic". Getting them to be basic partition instead of the dynamic one that it wants to use was a problem. I don't remember at what point I converted the new 2nd partition in to a basic and primary. It was an option from the left side of the disk manager. There is a button for each disk that has something like "Disk 0", "Disk 1", and etc. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html