From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 22: 7: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287EF37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id HAA25987; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:16:11 +0200 Message-ID: <3B9C4A76.6020404@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:07:02 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010905 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vijay singh Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux and frebsd on 1 disk References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Sending HTML encoded EMail is frowned upon here.] [Crosspost to RedHat list deleted.] 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message