From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 11:38:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3749837B8C7 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:38:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00865; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:38:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007251838.LAA00865@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Partition couldn't be labeled In-Reply-To: <397D67C4.ADF04EE8@slab.de> from steffen Glaser at "Jul 25, 2000 11:11:17 am" To: steffen Glaser Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG steffen Glaser wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD on my computer.When I'd installed > Linux I created an extra Partition (3,5GB) which stayed untouched > therefore. FreeBSD displayed this partition in the editor together with > the other partitions and suggested to install FreeBSD there. I agreed to > that and to the freeBSD data type (165?) (in the 5th attemp I wrote the > partition table immediately to the harddisk). The label editor displayed > only one partition (I'm not sure, it is the same, because the displayed > size was only 3.09 GB). The first time I was suspicious about this, but > then I relied on FreeBSD and agreed. But I couldn't label this partition > for / nor for /root, etc. I tried it several times, but it didn't work > ever. During the disklabel editor, sysinstall only displays the FreeBSD slices, so what you saw is fine. > Is it possible, that this problem occured, because it is the last slice > of a 12 GB harddisk (and so behind the 8,4 GB position)? If so, what can > I do? This is exactly the problem. It has been very recently fixed, and will be present in 4.1-RELEASE, which will be built sometime tonight and hopefully released on the FTP server by tomorrow. > Greetings, > > Steffen Glaser. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message