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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:07:02 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
To:        vijay singh <vijju_s@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linux and frebsd on 1 disk
Message-ID:  <3B9C4A76.6020404@i-clue.de>
References:  <LAW2-F246TR5UVN6UHP0000d6fe@hotmail.com>

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vijay singh wrote:

> Hello - I installed RedHat 7.0 on a Dell system with a 13G IBM IDE 
> hard disk. While installing Linux I allocated 6G and spread them 
> across 3 partitions as required. I did this using Disk Druid. Now I 
> would like to install FreeBSD on the rest of the disk - but when I 
> start the FreeBSD (4.2) installation process - it does not recognize 
> the entire space (around 7G left on the disk). Any ideas?
>

Check your partition table. If the remaining space is allocated to 
extended paretitions, you should delete the extended partition first. 
FreeBSD needs a standard partition.

If you're using an older version of FreeBSD, chances are your hard disk 
is too big.

HTH
-Christoph Sold


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