Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:07:18 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New install / Unrecognized fdisk terms Message-ID: <19980927120718.A24300@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <m3hfxut35g.fsf@chub.local>; from Harry Putnam on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 12:39:55AM -0700 References: <m3hfxut35g.fsf@chub.local>
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According to Harry Putnam: > /dev/hdb1 is an extende partition encompassing the whole Disk.The > partitions at /dev/hdb 8 9 (total about 1200MB) are available for BSD > install. > > I was not able to tell where they were in the Fdisk printouts that > come up during install. BSD fdisk shows a couple of sizeable `unused' FreeBSD can't be installed on "drives inside extended partitions" (to take a DOS terminology). You need to repartition your disk and make space available for a partition in the primary table, right now the "free" space is inside the extended partition and unavailable. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-BETA #0: Sat Sep 19 23:38:25 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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