From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 01:06:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25351 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:06:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25279 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:06:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04181; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:49:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Tyler Ripley cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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