Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 00:25:30 +0200 From: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (minor) install partitioning bug? Message-ID: <200207140025.30196.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20020713220710.GD22908@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <200207132320.53571.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> <20020713220710.GD22908@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Sunday 14 July 2002 00:07, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Steve Mazerski wrote: > > 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 > > 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? > > That looks like a known bug -- bin/24435 -- originally posted in > January 2001 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dbin%2F24435) > A patch was posted, but the bug is still open and not assigned to > anyone in particular, so chances are it's got forgotten. If you > submit a follow-up someone may be inspired to commit a fix... Aha, that looks like it. Very annoying bug, because I spent half the even= ing trying to correct what I thought was my own mistake... Follow-up submitted. Many thanks, S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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