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To: HarDBooT <hardbootpr@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 install problem
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FreeBSD, as Winblows, wants to have its boot partition within the very first two
Gig of any drive. It seems you experienced fdisk reporting the fact.

To fix the problem, you have to change your disk layout: there should be at
least some room for the root file system within the first two Gigs of your
disk,. something like this:

slice 0 (Dos partition 1) 1G Winblows
slice 1 (Dos partition 2) 1G FreeBSD root
slice 2 (Dos partition 3) some more room for FreeBSD
slice 3 (Dos partition 4) extended DOS partition  for Winblows

alternatively, add another small disk, and install FreeBSD there. Unlike
Winblows, FreeBSD boots happily from any disk on your system, given itrs root
partition is to be found within the first two Gig.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

HarDBooT wrote:

> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a AMD-K6 2 355Mhz 128 RAM
> HD Geometry 1313 cyls 255 heads 63 sectors=21093345 (as reported by FDISK)
>
> Offset    Size     End     Name     PType     Desc    SubType     Flags
>    0       63       62      -        6        unused     0
>   63    4112577  412639   ad0s2      2        fat       12              #(2G
> Win98)
> 4112640 6152895  10265534 ados1      2        fat       12              #(3G
> backup)
> 10265535 10829889 21095423 -         6        unused    0            >  #(5G
> for FreeBSD)
>
> the problem is that after the "making a new filesystem on /dev/rad0s3a"
> this message appear
>
> Unable to make a new root filesystem on /dev/rad0s3a!
> Command returned status 36"
>
> What can I do to fix this?



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