From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 12:57:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe4.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.240.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3004114C58 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from docgreenthumb42o@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 57889 invoked by uid 65534); 23 Aug 1999 19:56:31 -0000 Message-ID: <19990823195631.57888.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [153.34.126.57] From: "Nick Faso" To: Subject: Installation Problem Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:54:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0038_01BEED7F.C632CC80" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0038_01BEED7F.C632CC80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I made a 1000 meg partition on my windows box. I attempted to install = FreeBSD on it, but ran into a problem, it goes as follows - I changed = the partiton from FAT ro freebsd, then i tried to label the FreeBAD = partition. When I tried to use "auto defaults for all" i recieved this = error : "Unable to create root partition. To big? " When I tried to = manually create partition's I recieved this error : "This region cannot = be used for your root partition ad the FreeBSD Boot code cannot deal = with a root partition created in that location. Please choose another = location or a smaller size for your root partition an try again! " The = / partition that i was trying to create was 32M , i tried smaller sizes, = as small as 12M (which probably wouldnt have worked anyway), and I still = got this error. Any solutions? Thanks a lot, Nick Faso aaSiS - http://albany-academy.org/aasis=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0038_01BEED7F.C632CC80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I made a 1000 meg partition on my = windows=20 box.  I attempted to install FreeBSD on it, but ran into a problem, = it goes=20 as follows - I changed the partiton from FAT ro freebsd, then i tried to = label=20 the FreeBAD partition.  When I tried to use "auto defaults for all" = i=20 recieved this error : "Unable to create root partition.  To big? " = When I=20 tried to manually create partition's I recieved this error : "This = region cannot=20 be used for your root partition ad the FreeBSD Boot code cannot deal = with a root=20 partition created in that location.  Please choose another location = or a=20 smaller size for your root partition an try again! "  The / = partition that=20 i was trying to create was 32M , i tried smaller sizes, as small as 12M = (which=20 probably wouldnt have worked anyway), and I still got this error.  = Any=20 solutions?
 
Thanks a lot,
Nick Faso
aaSiS - http://albany-academy.org/aasis<= /A>=20
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