Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:28:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Joris Verboomen <joris.verboomen@glo.be> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Failing to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911212602.16497K-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <34114782.C764D972@glo.be>
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On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Joris Verboomen wrote: > I have used FIPS to split up my existing DOS Primary Partition. This gives me > a 2 DOS Primary Partitions (2nd one being a clone of the first one). I then > deleted the 2nd DOS Primary Partition (as said in the doc). If you look at > this again with FIPS it says that there is freespace not covered by any > partition. In any case the installation procedure does not allow you to use > this freespace, neither does it allow you to use the 2nd DOS Primary > Partition. > > Basically, my question is the following. When I am in the situation that I > have 2 DOS Primary Partitions as above, what more steps do I have to perform > to use this second partition and install FreeBSD on it ? OKay, at this point use DOS FDISK and delete the second Primary DOS partition. I assume one partition has all your stuff on it and the other is completely blank (that's how it's supposed to be at least :-) ). Now go ahead and install FreeBSD. In the FDISK Editor, you'll see some space that is marked `unused' and is fairly large. Select this partition and hit `C' and create a FreeBSD slice that size. Answer `yes' to the question to make it in compatibility mode, then Quit FDISK. In the Disklabel editor, hit `A' to take the calculated defaults, then Quit. >From there it should be fairly straightforward. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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