From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 06:05:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA26172 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 06:05:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mem.bellsouth.net (mail.mem.bellsouth.net [205.152.96.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA26161 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 06:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from main (d00011.mem.bellsouth.net [207.53.22.12]) by mail.mem.bellsouth.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA20321 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:05:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32A584CE.7F94@bellsouth.net> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 08:03:58 -0600 From: Gary Fry Reply-To: garyf@bellsouth.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Having Trouble... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear whoever can answer, I am having trouble installing FreeBSD v2.1.5 onto my computer! I have a Packard Bell Pentium 166Mhz machine with Windows 95 installed. Whenever I get to the point of partitioning my hard drive during the installation of FreeBSD, fdisk says I don't have enough room to create a partition. However, I have 1.04G out of 2.1G free space on that disk. Could you please tell me how: a. I can work around ths error... b. I can Fix this problem c. I can install FreeBSD into my DOS partition(as is possble for Linux(by Slackware) - or - d. What needs to be done period? I would really appreciate any answers/suggestions that you are able to give me. Thanks very much! Gary Fry > garyf@bellsouth.net <