From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 03:18:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA11963 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 03:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA11913 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 03:18:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id MAA13385 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:17:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (VMailer, from userid 101) id ED0E71531; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:07:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:07:18 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New install / Unrecognized fdisk terms Message-ID: <19980927120718.A24300@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Harry Putnam on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 12:39:55AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-BETA/ELF ctm#4660 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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