From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 15:24:19 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 6E26D37B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.webmailer.de (natwar.webmailer.de [192.67.198.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DD143E4A for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:24:14 -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 AAA29267; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 00:23:58 +0200 (MEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Steve Mazerski To: Matthew Seaman Subject: Re: (minor) install partitioning bug? Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 00:25:30 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200207132320.53571.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> <20020713220710.GD22908@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020713220710.GD22908@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207140025.30196.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 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