From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 7:40:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel1.hp.com (atlrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8BB37B61E for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 07:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gene_dinkey@hp.com) Received: from amrelay2.boi.hp.com (amrelay2.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.41]) by atlrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FDAA31 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:40:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from xrosebh3.rsvl.itc.hp.com (xrosebh3.rsvl.itc.hp.com [15.34.240.67]) by amrelay2.boi.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with SMTP id IAA18276 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 08:40:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 15.34.240.67 by xrosebh3.rsvl.itc.hp.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Sun, 09 Jul 2000 07:40:39 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Received: by xrosebh3.rsvl.itc.hp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <3KZSZWWP>; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 07:40:39 -0700 Message-ID: From: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Slice size larger than disk size during install? Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 07:40:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a P90 w/ 24MB RAM. I'm using the boot floppies, the first time I went through the installation the only problem I had was a loose cable on the back of the cdrom (probably happened while I was moving the system) that caused the package installation to abort. I didn't have any problems slicing out the HDD or anything like that. After I rebooted I can boot off of the floppies but when I try to load the install it tries to read the HDD then says "slice size larger than disk size", gives a few numbers (slice Vs disk and such) and then panics out "Not going anywhere without init". The only thing I can think of is that I chose to dedicate the whole disk to BSD (it's a 800MB HDD and I don't plan on using any other OS's on the system)...any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You Gene Dinkey 970.278.8732 Hewlett Packard Customer Care Center Technical Computing Division To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message