From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 12:52:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25688 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25646 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:51:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11190; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:51:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: wils743@banet.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation In-Reply-To: <361F76A7.75C3@banet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 wils743@banet.net wrote: > I went through the installation process and got to the point where it > asks about creating space on disk. Now I am getting confused. > In the begining I had one single C drive (3.1G). I bought a software > package called Partition It. I used this to partition my hard disk. When > I got finished I had created a logical drive D(1201MB) where I intended > to install FreeBSD. If it has a DOS name, you're going the wrong way. FreeBSD requires it's own slice type. Trash the logical disk and related extended partition, then run the FreeBSD installer. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message