Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:14:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Installation 'Slicing' Problem Message-ID: <199903091614.LAA00685@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I used the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to install 3.1-RELEASE last night. I was putting the new FreeBSD slice over my old M$ FAT slice. On the fdisk screen, I re-typed the FAT as UFS and went to the partitioning step. However, whenever I tried to create a partition, FS, swap, or the 'auto' option, I got an error like, "Unable to create root partition. Too big?" I got similar, 'Too big?' errors for attpempts at non-root partitions. I re-typed my other FreeBSD slice temporarily on the guess that it was confusing things, but no help. Eventually, I just tried deleting the FAT then creating a new UFS slice. I didn't figure that would work, but it did. Everything cruised along after that. Why did re-typing the FAT not work? What is the difference between re-typing an existing slice, and deleting and creating a slice (which is idetntical in geometry to the one deleted as far as I know)? Is this a bug? Is it documented someplace I have not been able to find it? My concern is this could be a problem for newbies who are trying to install FreeBSD into where a old or unwanted FAT currently resides. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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