Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 20:17:58 -0400 From: Ken Westerback <krw@tcn.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing 3.0-19980917 on 9GB Disk - "Unable to create root partition - too big?" Message-ID: <360D8436.A8F1E900@tcn.net> References: <360C3A52.9557CD12@tcn.net>
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To answer my own question: Apparently merely changing the partition type was not enough to convince the install procedure to reformat it. Once I deleted and recreated the partition, causing the 'C' flag to appear beside it, all was well. The 'A'uto config created the appropriate file systems and the install completed. ---- Ken Ken Westerback wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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