Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:18:25 -0700 (MST) From: Reg Clemens <reg@dwf.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Install Problem Message-ID: <199901102318.QAA01776@clemens.dwf.com>
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Ive posted to the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc newsgroup, but received either
no answer or answers to a different question (sigh), so I will try here.
In a nutshell, I cant install the Walnut Creek FreeBSD v3.0 dated Nov 1998
on a machine has a GigaByte motherboard, a 350MHz Pentium and two 6GB disks.
However, its not obvious how the hardware is relevant to the problem that
I am seeing.
I can boot the cd (directly), remove some conflicts, set the keymap and
choose NOVICE install.
I get as far as the DISK LABEL EDITOR, which is about screen #10 in the
install. At that point I have given it either the 1st slice on the 2nd
disk (wd2s1) or the 3rd slice on the 1st disk (wd1s3). This slice is about
1.1GB in size. I have changed the slice type to FreeBSD, and verified (with
the `G' screen that fdisk is seeing the LBA stuff, and that the entire disk
is seen as being below cylinder 779.
In all cases the dialog goes like this:
DISK LABEL EDITOR
I type `A' for Automatic layout.
FreeBSD/Install responds
Unable to create the root partition. Too Big?
So I try `C' for create.
FreeBSD/Install responds with a size screen,
I cut the size down to 20M from some large number of blocks.
FreeBSD/Install responds with `type' screen.
I leave it at FS and (OK)
FreeBSD/Install responds with a mount point screen
I type in / , then (OK)
FreeBSD/Install responds with
This region cannot be used for your root partition as the FreeBSD boot
program cannto deal with a root partition created at this location.
Please choose another location or smaller size for your root partition
and try again.
As noted Ive tried two locations on two separate disks.
Ive (logically) turned off the SCSI controller so install doesnt see it,
just in case that was confusing it (there are NO scsi disks).
Ive cut the size of the slice down to 500M.
All of these result in the same dialog.
Any Ideas?
Windows98 and Linux install and run just fine on the machine.
I had wanted to bring up Windows/Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris on this machine to
use it as a testbed for some software. However trying to install FreeBSD
is taking WAY more time than I had expected, what with the claim of
`Easy Installation'.
Reg.Clemens
reg@dwf.com
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