Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:50:26 -0400 From: Ken Westerback <krw@tcn.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing 3.0-19980917 on 9GB Disk - "Unable to create root partition - too big?" Message-ID: <360C3A52.9557CD12@tcn.net>
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I downloaded the 3.0-19980917 snapshot to a couple of zip disks at work over our convenient fractional T1 connection and rushed home to install 3.0 on the partition I had saved for it on my 9GB disk. The disk is an IDE (wd0) in LBA mode using a BIOS geometry of 1247 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track. I have partitioned it into 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition. The first primary (2G) in Win98. The second primary (100MB) is my Linux root, the third primary (3G) is where I want to install FreeBSD and the extended (4G) is divided into various slices of my Linux installation. The partitions are ordered on the disk in the above order. By my calculation the third primary should occupy space < 1024 cylinders and I thought this was all I had to watch out for. I had installed OpenBSD into the third primary and it worked fine. So when I booted the FreeBSD floppy I just changed the type of the partition to 165 and tried to 'A'uto create the various file systems within it. When I did that I got the message "Unable to create root partition - Too big?" When I tried to manually create a 100MB root partition I got a similiar error. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I need to do to get FreeBSD installed on this partition? Or can someone explain why it is impossible? I searched dejanews and the freebsd-current mailing list archive with no success. I have Partition Magic 4.0 so I can slide the partitions around (including the ext2 ones) to accomodate any required configuration. But I do need to keep Win98 and Linux around for the forseeable future ... ---- Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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