From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 10: 3:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB0237B423 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:03:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13RHRS-000K62-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:02:26 +0300 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:02:26 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation hick Message-ID: <20000822200225.E67392@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <399F4736.C4376165@rocler.qc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <399F4736.C4376165@rocler.qc.ca>; from Linda Foley on Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 10:49:26PM -0400 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.pico.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 7:59PM up 23:37, 3 users, load averages: 0.23, 0.23, 0.19 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the same problem when I tried to make my /swap too large!! so I went like this / = 250MB /var = 400MB swap = 320MB around that /usr = 1GB and above I blieve the issue is with the size you are giving the swap ... Quoting Linda Foley : [000820 05:47]: Linda Foley>Hi, when I try to install FreeBSD 4.1 (downloaded from your ftp site), I Linda Foley>get an error message when I try to slice the partition. I don't Linda Foley>remember EXACTLY what it said, but it was something like: "Could not Linda Foley>create slice. Partition too big?". But my partition is ony 5.5 gig Linda Foley>(one of my friend installed it on a 15 gig partition!). So I'd like to Linda Foley>know if any of you guys out there have known such a problem and if Linda Foley>there's a way to fix it. Debian no longer fits my needs like I wish it Linda Foley>would, and I have to see if FreeBSD is my alternative (plus Loki will Linda Foley>support FreeBSD, so there's no reason NOT to use it :)) Linda Foley> Linda Foley>wmHardRock Linda Foley> Linda Foley> Linda Foley> Linda Foley>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org Linda Foley>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal -- if you are all thumbs. -Glaser and Way To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message