From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 8 9:34:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netsrvr.ami.com.au (netsrvr.ami.com.au [203.55.31.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8083637B407 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summer@os2.ami.com.au) Received: from dugite.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:root@c0s11.ami.com.au [203.55.31.76]) by netsrvr.ami.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA19421 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:21:37 +0800 Received: from possum.os2.ami.com.au (possum.os2.ami.com.au [192.168.1.6]) by dugite.os2.ami.com.au (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f58FLaO01279 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:21:36 +0800 Received: from possum.os2.ami.com.au (summer@localhost) by possum.os2.ami.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f58DeaK01279 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:40:36 +0800 Message-Id: <200106081340.f58DeaK01279@possum.os2.ami.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 4.2 Install problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 21:40:35 +0800 From: John Summerfield Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I go through the motions of creating a slice, there's no error message and no slice. Am I right to think 4.2 won't install on this drive without drastic measures? [root@possum /root]# sfdisk -lx /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 1108 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 1 2- 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 2 1107 1106 8883945 5 Extended /dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda5 654+ 1107 454- 3646723+ 83 Linux - 2+ 448 447- 3590527 5 Extended - 2 1 0 0 0 Empty - 2 1 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda6 2+ 448 447- 3590496 83 Linux - 2+ 2- 0 0 0 Empty - 2+ 2- 0 0 0 Empty - 2+ 2- 0 0 0 Empty [root@possum /root]# The space I was hoping to use is currently occupied by hda6; at the time of the attempt it was free space. I now have the impression that the space must be in one of the areas described in the partition table entries in the MBR - hda1-4. Is this so? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message