From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 22 19:59:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE95F37B415 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 275676AB15; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:29:43 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:29:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: cyu0635@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install freebsd Message-ID: <20010923122943.I5590@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3BA953E2.ED3406FD@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BA953E2.ED3406FD@home.com>; from cyu0635@home.com on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:26:42PM -0400 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Wednesday, 19 September 2001 at 22:26:42 -0400, cyu0635@home.com wrote: > Hi all > > > I failed to install freebsd after installing win98 and win2000 server > > I created a 12GB partition on ad03 but somehow Freebsd only recognized > 7M during the system installation, i.e. allocating disk space for /var, > /etc etc. > > What could be the problem? You could have done something wrong. Without any output, it's difficult to say. What does the partition editor say? Taking the (somewhat outdated) example from "The Complete FreeBSD", we have: Disk name: wd0 FDISK Partition Editor BIOS Geometry: 989 cyls/12 heads/35 sectors Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 35 34 - 6 unused 0 35 167965 167999 wd0s1 2 fat 6 = 168000 246960 414959 wd0s2 2 fat 6 = 414960 420 415379 - 2 unused 0 The following commands are supported (in upper or lower case): A = Use Entire Disk B = Bad Block Scan C = Create Partition D = Delete Partition G = Set BIOS Geometry S = Set Bootable U = Undo All Changes Q = Finish W = Write Changes The currently selected partition is displayed in reverse video Use F1 or ? to get more help, arrow keys to move. I need the lines starting below the header "Offset". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message