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Hello FreeBSD geeks,

I am trying to Install FreeBSD on my Pentium PC.  I partioned the hard
disk to have a FreeBSD swap and filesystem partition.  I have Linux
already installed on another partition.  But when I try to make my only
filesystem partition as root, I get a message saying something like the
partition is too big or there is something wrong with the location. 
Well I tried sizes varying from 20M to 300M for the root partition and
still no luck.  What am I doing wrong?


Peace
Jose