Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 02:39:36 -0800 From: Jonathan Hahn <hahn@and.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installing on FAT32 w/Partition Magic Message-ID: <199801151039.CAA01387@and.com>
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I'm a long-time FreeBSD user and have performed many installations, but I'm stuck. I recently purchased a Sony VAIO 707C laptop. I discovered it uses a FAT32 file system which fips doesn't yet support. There is a modified fips (fips1.5b, http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html) which I tried. It did something, but the machine wouldn't boot afterwards. Fortunately, restorrb backed those changes out. So next I purchased Partition Magic. It split the main partition nicely and apparently on a cylindar boundary. So far so good. I can boot off a freebsd boot disk, and run install. The problem is that when I try to create Unix partitions in the new DOS partition, the install program refuses. If I try to create a root file system of any size, I get: This region cannot be used for your root partition as the FreeBSD boot code cannot deal with a root partition created in that location. Please choose another partition or smaller size for your root partition and try again! An attempt to create the smallest root file systems still gets me this message. If I try and create a swap partition of any size, or any other file system (e.g. /usr) I get: Unable to create the partition. Too big? I suspect a problem in my DOS partition setup. Here's my table: Name PType Desc Subtype Flags Comment - 6 unused 0 size = 1 track wd0s1 1 unknown 11 win95 (1.5 GB) wd0s3 2 fat 6 for freebsd (.5 GB) wd0s2 1 OS/2 bootmgr 10 size = 1 cyl wd0s4 1 unknown 160 for mem image save (390 MB) - 6 unused 0 size = 1 cyl When I change the type of wds3 to FreeBSD, the line then reads: wd0s3 3 freebsd 165 for freebsd I have no idea what's going on. I took a look at the source for sysinstall and it's hairy. Does anyone have any insight/suggestions? I'm obviously violating some requirement, but I have no idea what. thanks in advance, -jonathan hahn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Hahn And Communications hahn@and.com (408) 736-7014
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