Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 16:53:28 -0500 From: Jason Sabella <jsabella@ic.sunysb.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <352408D8.F06EDCF8@ic.sunysb.edu>
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Hi Doug. I haven't written in a few days. I have the 6.4 GIG hard drive in 3 equal partitions. C and D for DOS, and I want the E drive for FreeBSD. I went into DOS's fdisk and deleted the E drive. So now when I run windows, the C drive is 2.1 megs, the D drive is still 2.1 megs, and the E drive is gone (so the CD-Rom, etc moved down a letter..). Then I ran FIPS on the FreeBSD CD-Rom to split the Extended Partition (the 4.2 meg part that contained the D & E drives). It says "FIPS can't split extended partitions". What should I do? Below is what the FIPS screen looks like: Part|Boot|Head Cyl Sect|System|Head Cyl Sect|Start Sect|Num Sectors|MB 1 yes 1 0 1 06h 254 260 63 63 4192902 2047 2 no 0 261 1 05h 254 782 63 4192965 8385930 4094 3 no 0 0 0 00h 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 no 0 0 0 00h 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thank you very much. Jason Sabella Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Jason Sabella wrote: > > > Hello Doug, thank you for responding. I went into DOS's fdisk and got > > rid of drive E completely. Then I ran the FreeBSD installation again, > > and when i get to that FDISK screen there, it says: > > > > ----------- > > Disk name: wd2 > > Disk Geometry: 512 cyls/12 heads/32 sectors = 196608 sectors > > > > Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags > > 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0 > > 32 196192 196223 wd2s1 2 fat 6 > > 196224 384 196607 - 6 unused 0 > > ------------ > > > > What do I do here exactly? What is the free space? > > You said to hit 'C', but with which one chosen? > > Please help if you can. Thank you. > > Your DOs partition consumes the entire disk; there isn't any room to > install FreeBSD to. Use FIPS to split out some of the disk into a separate > partition, delete it, and install FreeBSD over it. > > FIPS is included on the CDROM or on the ftp site in tools/. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Jason Sabella wrote: > > > I am having trouble installing FreeBSD 2.2.1 from the Walnut Creek > > CD-ROM. I have a Gateway 2000 686-266 with a 6.4 GIG hard drive, > > partitioned into 3 equal pieces of about size 2.1 GIG. Windows 95 is > > installed on Drive C. I am using Drive C and drive D for Windows > > stuff. I want to install FreeBSD onto my E drive, which is currently > > empty. > > Make sure that drive E doesn't actually exist -- it must be completely > clean space, not part of any other partition. At that point hit 'C' in > the fdisk editor and accept the default size -- it'll take up the > remaining space. > > 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
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