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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:06:15 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        GENE DINKEY <gene_dinkey@hp.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Slice size larger than disk size during install?
Message-ID:  <20000710140615.A18656@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C5313EC@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
References:  <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C5313EC@xfc04.fc.hp.com>

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On Sunday,  9 July 2000 at  7:40:32 -0700, GENE DINKEY wrote:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a P90 w/ 24MB RAM.  I'm using the boot
> floppies, the first time I went through the installation the only problem I
> had was a loose cable on the back of the cdrom (probably happened while I
> was moving the system) that caused the package installation to abort.  I
> didn't have any problems slicing out the HDD or anything like that.
>
> After I rebooted I can boot off of the floppies but when I try to load the
> install it tries to read the HDD then says "slice size larger than disk
> size", gives a few numbers (slice Vs disk and such)

We need to see them.

> and then panics out "Not going anywhere without init".
>
> The only thing I can think of is that I chose to dedicate the whole
> disk to BSD (it's a 800MB HDD and I don't plan on using any other
> OS's on the system)...

Nope, that's what most of us do.

We need more input.  Numbers, for example, and messages.

Greg
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