Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:00:14 -0700 From: Steve Carter <scarter@globalcenter.net> To: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd) Message-ID: <19990304170014.B26222@globalcenter.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903041723430.13683-100000@xi>; from Jason A. Pfeil on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 05:28:14PM -0500 References: <19990304135314.E441@lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903041723430.13683-100000@xi>
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Jason A. Pfeil wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for offering to help and I apologize for the "extraneous" > information. However, I included the information to provide all I could > about the geometry of the drive so someone could provide insight without > having to ask for more information. > > > What's the message? > > The message is that it can't create the slice (Too large?) is added > afterwards. I have seem a similar problem on most of my installs on bigger disks (8M+), try making the slice slightly smaller, a bit at a time, until it works. If this is the same problem as mine then you will lose a small (~100M) of your disk but you will get installed. I wonder what the actual fix for this is? On a 10G drive, my BSD partition table looks like: Disk: wd0 Partition name: wd0s1 Free: 105803 blocks (51MB) Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- wd0s1b swap 265MB SWAP wd0s1a / 100MB * wd0s1e /tmp 50MB * wd0s1f /var 50MB * wd0s1g /usr 9100MB * Note the 51M free. I couldn't get the /usr slice to become the whole remainder of the disk after creating the /, /tmp & /var slices. -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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