From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 9 20:25:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f35.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0589214E8B for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dunaedain@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 59594 invoked by uid 0); 10 Sep 1999 03:22:15 -0000 Message-ID: <19990910032215.59593.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 206.18.107.226 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 09 Sep 1999 20:22:15 PDT X-Originating-IP: [206.18.107.226] From: "lachlan kanaley" To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: unable to create disk labels when installing Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 03:22:15 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello im trying to install FreeBSD, however when i try to make the slices for the / partitions it gives the error message : "This region cannot be used for your root partitions as the FreeBSD code cannont deal with the root partition created in that location. Please choose a smaller size or a different location for your root partition." and when i try to create a /usr: "unable to create the partition. Too Big?" the drive is a 3.2 GB drive using LBA in bios and I know it works, i can install RedHAt Linux 6 on it. the partitions are divided as follows. 78M --> Dos 2898M --> FreeBSD --> to be divided for the / and /usr 102M --> FreeBSD --> to be used as swap space thanks pls. send replies to me as im not a member of this newsgroup lachlan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message