From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 14:20: 5 2002 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 8DBFB37B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.webmailer.de (natpost.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D45C43E64 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smazerski@yahoo.co.jp) Received: from ianb (pD9EB1A8A.dip.t-dialin.net [217.235.26.138]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA20121 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:19:46 +0200 (MET DST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Steve Mazerski To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: (minor) install partitioning bug? Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:20:53 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207132320.53571.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> 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 Synopsis:=20 FreeBSD interactive install tool unable to repartition a slice with a non-FreeBSD file system and system id. Description: I've just installed FreeBSD (4.6-RELEASE) on a Linux machine for the first time on that particular machine. My plan was to use a redundant primary partition on the first IDE harddisk for a test installation. The partition in question contained a fully functioning ext2fs file system. Using the interactive FDISK partition editor I changed the=20 filesystem id from Linux (0x83) to FreeBSD (0xA5) and proceeded to the disklabel editor, where I attempted to create partitions in the rededicated slice. However any attempt was answered with the the message "Unable to create the partition. Too big?" even using the "Auto defaults" option. After trying various things (random panic option tweaking, expletive cursing etc.) I booted into Linux and used=20 the Linux fdisk to set the partition / slice type to FreeBSD. (I left the filesystem as it was). On restarting the FreeBSD installation process, I was able to create partitions as expected and the slice was formatted correctly. Is this a bug or have I missed something? Yours S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message