From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 17 18:18:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8428537B400 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 18:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.southeast.rr.com (smtp3.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9262343E72 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 18:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6 [24.93.67.53]) by smtp3.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7I1I9ga016323; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:18:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.162.238.30]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:18:24 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id CF800BA12; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:18:07 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Disklabel shows my DOS partition? Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:18:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020818004649.8A38943E42@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020818004649.8A38943E42@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208172118.07260.bts@babbleon.org> 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 On Saturday 17 August 2002 08:39 pm, scottman@altern.org wrote: | Dear helping spirit, | | While trying to install FreeBSD for the first time on my PC, I come up with | an error message when using the FreeBSD Disklabel Editor create or auto | default options. It mentions that my disk is to big... Even when specifying | the 30 mb suggested minimum! | | Prior of entering the Disklabel Editor, in the FDisk Partition Editor, I | changed the type of a 1.6 gig ext2 linux partition to a FreeBSD (165) one. | I then had a FAT partition of 6 gig, an extended partition of 1.7 gig and | my new FreeBSD partition. | | Accepting these settings and entering the Dislabel Editor I find a DOS | partition listed of 6 gig? Right. A DOS partition and a FAT partition are two different names for the same thing. But disklabel shouldn't be trying to work with a FAT partition; that's very odd. But I'm wondering if your FreeBSD partition is a primary partition. It must be for FreeBSD to install properly; it cannot be a logical partition in an extended partition. You will then subdivide that primary partition with the disklabel editor. I hope that this helps; I admit to not completely understanding how your problem came about. | This is where I cant seem to change to the | FreeBSD partition previously created... And when trying to create a new | partition, I get the disk to big error suggestion. | | Any help on this subject would be more than welcome since I really want to | become BSD user! | | Thanks | Scottman | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message