From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 26 13:33:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DF937B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:33:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E70643E4A for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:33:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wa1ter@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com wa1ter@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [66.126.108.149] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.23 $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:33:45 -0700 Message-ID: <3E34548C.6070907@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:35:08 -0800 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from CDROM, errors References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG walt wrote: > Damien U wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I will firstly say that although I am not experienced with freeBSD, I have been using Linux for some time. I obtained the first ISO in the set for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE last saturday, here are the problems I have been experiencing whilst attempting to install it. > > >>2) Cannot create partition for FreeBSD >> >>I can create a "slice" for freeBSD in fdisk, but it calls the partition "X". When I go to commit the changes to hard drive and start the install, freeBSD complains that it cannot find "/dev/X". I have found no way to correct the name in fdisk. >> >>Here is my partition table as reported by cfdisk under linux: >> >> Name Part Type FS Type Size (MB) >> ------------------------------------------ >> hda1 Primary NTFS 20974.47 >> hda2 Primary Ext3 10487.24 >> hda3 Primary Linux Swap 205.64 >> hda5 Logical FAT32 10511.91 >> hda6 Logical Reiserfs 10692.87 >> hda7 Logical Reiserfs 10001.95 >> Logical Free Space 17149.71 > > > The BSD family of operating systems must be installed in a 'primary' partition, > i.e. those numbered from 1 to 4. More correctly, the root partition / must be > in a primary partition -- FreeBSD will happily use a 'logical' partition for > any other partition, but not for /. > > You could copy your ext3 filesystem into a logical partition in free space > and then install FBSD in hda2 -- or ad0s2 as FBSD would call it. Stupid me -- just make an hda8 for your Linux swap partition and use ad0s3 for your FreeBSD install. Nothing to copy that way. Just remember to change the swap entry in your linux /etc/fstab before your next reboot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message