From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 8: 4:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.buckhorn.net (matrix.buckhorn.net [208.129.165.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1384D37B976 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 08:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: from buckhorn.net (nebula.buckhorn.net [208.129.165.66]) by matrix.buckhorn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA97016 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:01:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Message-ID: <3961FCF3.B2DAE232@buckhorn.net> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 10:04:19 -0500 From: Bob Martin Organization: InterNet Unlimited X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 References: <20000704142826.52177.qmail@bsdmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG openzero@bsdmail.com wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Martin > Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 08:12:56 -0500 > To: John Baldwin > Subject: Re: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 > > > Manually installing the label will solve the problem. The problem > > doesn't affect 3.2, 3.3 or 5.0, or Windows9x, all of which load without > > any problem. > > Hm! > Well I use FreeBSD2.2.8 and FreeBSD-3.4-SecureBSD1.0 > coz, FreeBSD can't find/or write the label..... Ok, I'm guessing that you mean FreeBSD 4.0. But it can't find the label? > Hm,OK! > Can you tell me, how to write the label manually, > without an installed FreeBSD4.0? Use a fixit floppy during install. You have to know how to move around in sysinstall, and you should spend plenty of time reading the man page on disklabel first. The dos fdisk/format trick is a lot simpler, and seems to work ok. > Do you mean, FreeBSD-5.0-CURRENT doesn't have this > problem? 5.0 loads without any problems. But Current can be very tricky, and should never be used on a production machine. > Im interested in the FreeBSD Toolkit from Walnut Creek! A very good choice. > thanx... > > (mfg Daniel Ridder from Germany) > -- Bob -- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message