Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:21:43 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble setting up multiple boot on big disk Message-ID: <200308292121.43568.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200308300352.VAA17113@lariat.org> References: <200308300352.VAA17113@lariat.org>
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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
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