Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 01:56:26 +0000 From: John Murphy <john@t-f-i.freeserve.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Slices named X in FDISK Message-ID: <5LG9OMCgTIyq8Ob56lYMZdmd33rc@4ax.com>
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Can't seem to find the answer to this: HELLLP!
Trying to install both FreeBSD 3.2 and win95 on the same Seagate HD
model ST38410A 8.4G BIOS says it's 16383 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors.
The Redmond software seems to insist on having the first partition,
so I've used Partition Magic to set up the drive thus:
454.9M Bootable FAT for drive C:
31.4M Unformatted Hidden Bootable for FreeBSD /
7.8M Boot Manager Active
5,020.3M FAT32 for drive D: (extended)
2,706.3M Unused for FreeBSD swap and /usr
Using the Novice install method and CDRom...
=46DISK Partition editor shows this: (after I create the slices I want)
Disk name: wd0
Disk Geometry: 1048 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors =3D 16836120 sectors[1]
Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 931707 931769 wd0s1 2 fat 6 =3D
931770 64260 996029 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C=3D
996030 16065 1012094 wd0s3 1 OS/2 bootmgr 10 =3D
1012095 10281600 11293694 wd0s4 4 extended 5 =3D
11293695 5542425 16836119 X 3 freebsd 165 =3D>
16836120 5544 16841663 - 6 unused 0 >
[1] Should I set this to what the BIOS says?
So on to the Disklabel editor (ain't gonna work though, is it)
Disk wd0 Partition name: wd0s2 Free 0 blocks (0MB)
Disk wd0 Partition name: X Free 0 blocks (0MB)
Part Mount Size Newfs
---- ----- ---- -----
wd0s1 <none> 454MB DOS
wd0s2a / 31MB UFS N
X swap 256MB SWAP
X /usr 2450MB UFS N
I then get the message about no /var but that's no problem, but then
the next message is "Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev!
the creation of filesystems will be aborted." I'm not surprised.
The next message is "Couldn't make filesystem properly. Aborting."
I've looked at the debug messages on VTY1 but I don't think they
would be helpful here. I've noted them but I guess the question is:
How can I use the "X" slice as (say) wd0s5?
I've previously installed ok on a 486 where it's the only OS, and
also on this same hardware using a spare (but slow) HD (wd1) so I
know the hardware is compatible.
Any and all advice will be much appreciated. And thanks for a great OS.
John.
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