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To: "Paul F. Werkowski" <pw@snoopy.MV.COM>
cc: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD (fwd) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jan 95 16:14:59 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 17:50:02 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 	For what it's worth, I just went through the 2.0 install process
> 	from the CDROM with floppies from 941204. The only real problem
> 	I had was that I could not change a partition size via the menu.
> 	I wanted to change my wd0a partition from 14 to 20 MB but the
> 	damn menu always made it a "1". No geometry translation here.
> 	Did I have to (W)rite the change before it showed in the menu?

I suspect that it was full.  You need to tear *all* the partitions
after an upsized partition down and rebuild them, since install is not
(yet) smart enough to ripple down the change.  It just runs out of
space and balks.

					Jordan