Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:49:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tyler Ripley <cyberchip@mailcity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309004842.3844I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <OFOGPMNNAIBGBAAA@mailcity.com>
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On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Tyler Ripley wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD over a PPP, FTP internet connection, and > I'm stuck at the hard drive partition section. When I upgraded my hard > drive a while back, I already partitioned my hard drive. There is a > limitation with DOS, that it will only allow 2.1GB per partition. So I > partitioned my C drive for 2.1GB, and a D drive for 500MB. (I bought a > 2.6GB hard drive). Now I want to install FreeBSD on the D drive, but I > cannot lose the data on the C drive. When I got to the partition > question I was lost. You have to delete the extended partition and the logical disk D associated with it first. FreeBSD requires it's own slice. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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