From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 22:12:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA11033 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 22:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA11024 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 22:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02635; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 22:07:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 22:07:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Cameron Burley cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation In-Reply-To: <33F80260.A0426D13@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Cameron Burley wrote: > Hi, I'm installing FreeBSD, as a first time installation, on a PCI P-100 > with 16mb ram, 850mb IDE hdd. The problem I'm having is that whenever I > go to create a FreeBSD partition with the command, to create a > slice, I enter the amount required (250M), press enter and the partition > dosen't appear so i can set it bootable. Likewise, it dosen't appear in > the next step to create swap files etc in the newly created FreeBSD > slice. Is this a harddrive problem? I've checked the geometry option > and the hd is as it is in the bios... any suggestions? Make sure the selection bar is on space marked `unused' before using the option. I don't suggest changing the geometry with the option unless you're having serious trouble. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo